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Nevertheless , he was still kept on , some befriending him for compassion , and others as it were to spite me . But Robin 's good behaviour did not end with breaking the drum , and costing a new one . -- In the course of the winter it was his custom to beat , `` Go to bed , Tom , '' about ten o'clock at night , and the reveille at five in the morning . -- In one of his drunken fits he made a mistake , and instead of going his rounds as usual at ten o'clock , he had fallen asleep in a change house , and waking about the midnight hour in the terror of some whisky dream , he seized his drum , and running into the streets , began to strike the fire-beat in the most awful manner . It was a fine clear frosty moonlight , and the hollow sound of the drum resounded through the silent streets like thunder . -- In a moment every body was a-foot , and the cry of `` Whar is ` t ? whar 's the fire ? ''