four in the morning
He carried his water-horror so far as to walk some quarter of a mile every morning to fill his kettle at a favourite pump . `` Was he a cannibal , to drink out o ' that pump hard-by , right under the kirkyard ? '' But it was little he either ate or drank -- he seemed to live upon tobacco . From four in the morning till twelve at night , the pipe never left his lips , except when he went into the outer shop . `` It promoted meditation , and drove awa ' the lusts o ' the flesh . Ech ! it was worthy o ' that auld tyrant , Jamie , to write his counter-blast to the poor man 's freen !