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Otherwise , you 'll all be too tired and get ill . '' And so they had the blessed experience of lying still and drowsy , and hearing Kink move about for their comfort . The boys were up first , and made extremely noisy toilets in the washing-up basin , and then Jack and Gregory went off to the farm for milk and butter and eggs , and Mrs. Gosden , who seemed , early as it was , to be in the very middle of a day 's work , and who refused to believe that the boys were not deceiving her when they denied having sore throats , gave them leave to gather strawberries , so that their return to the Slowcoach was a new triumph . Their breakfast was chiefly scrambled eggs , ham , and strawberries , and by ten o'clock , true to their bargain , they were out of the field and on the highroad , and no sign of their camp remained , save a black circle caused by the fire and a slight crushing of the grass all round it . They had gone a very little way before Robert , who had already been to Woodstock with the morning telegram , began to realize that he was in for a blister on his left heel , and , on asking the others , he found that they were not too comfortable either . `` This means , '' he told Mary , speaking to her in her official capacity of Regulator of Rests , `` that we shall have to ride a good deal , because we simply must go twelve miles today , or we sha n't be at Stratford in time for mother tomorrow afternoon . '' Mary therefore ordered them in and out of the Slowcoach with great frequency , but it was not a great deal of use , for they hobbled more and more .