eight
o’clock
With the renowned phrenologist from London , begging to be favoured -LRB- at sixpence each -RRB- with the company of clients of both sexes , to whom , on examination of their heads , he would make revelations ` enabling him or her to know themselves . ' Through all these bargains and blessings , the recruiting-sergeant watchfully elbowed his way , a thread of War in the peaceful skein . Likewise on the walls were printed hints that the Oxford Blues might not be indisposed to hear of a few fine active young men ; and that whereas the standard of that distinguished corps is full six feet , ` growing lads of five feet eleven ' need not absolutely despair of being accepted . Scenting the morning air more pleasantly than the buried majesty of Denmark did , Messrs. Idle and Goodchild rode away from Carlisle at eight o'clock one forenoon , bound for the village of Hesket , Newmarket , some fourteen miles distant . Goodchild -LRB- who had already begun to doubt whether he was idle : as his way always is when he has nothing to do -RRB- had read of a certain black old Cumberland hill or mountain , called Carrock , or Carrock Fell ; and had arrived at the conclusion that it would be the culminating triumph of Idleness to ascend the same . Thomas Idle , dwelling on the pains inseparable from that achievement , had expressed the strongest doubts of the expediency , and even of the sanity , of the enterprise ; but Goodchild had carried his point , and they rode away . Up hill and down hill , and twisting to the right , and twisting to the left , and with old Skiddaw -LRB- who has vaunted himself a great deal more than his merits deserve ; but that is rather the way of the Lake country -RRB- , dodging the apprentices in a picturesque and pleasant manner .