seven o'clock
When Chippy told his followers that they must play the game all the time , he meant every word that he said . He had devoted himself heart and soul to becoming a true scout , who is also a true gentleman , and he not only could reel off the laws by heart , but , as we have seen , he honestly strove to put them into practice at every moment . But now and again he ran up against a hard streak of weather in doing this , and he hit an uncommonly hard streak the very next morning . At seven o'clock he turned up bright and early at the fishmonger 's shop where he was employed . His employer , Mr. Blades , was in a fairly prosperous way of business in one of the secondary streets of the town . Mr. Blades looked after the shop ; his son , a young man of twenty-three , drove a trap round with the customers ' orders ; and two boys , of whom Chippy was one , cleaned up , fetched and carried , ran short distances with pressing orders , and made themselves generally useful . All went as usual until about eleven o'clock in the morning , when Chippy was despatched to deliver four or five small bags of fish at the houses of customers who lived within easy reach .