As for Laddie , who was sitting beside him with his shaggy head on Ernest 's knee , I really believe the dog understood , too . The look in his eyes was almost human . Uncle Richard leaned over and patted him . `` Good dog ! '' he said . `` Good dog ! '' At Five O'Clock in the Morning Fate , in the guise of Mrs. Emory dropping a milk-can on the platform under his open window , awakened Murray that morning . Had not Mrs. Emory dropped that can , he would have slumbered peacefully until his usual hour for rising -- a late one , be it admitted , for of all the boarders at Sweetbriar Cottage Murray was the most irregular in his habits . `` When a young man , '' Mrs. Emory was wont to remark sagely and a trifle severely , `` prowls about that pond half of the night , a-chasing of things what he calls ` moonlight effecks , ' it ai n't to be wondered at that he 's sleepy in the morning . And it ai n't the convenientest thing , nuther and noways , to keep the breakfast table set till the farm folks are thinking of dinner . But them artist men are not like other people , say what you will , and allowance has to be made for them . And I must say that I likes him real well and approves of him every other way . '' If Murray had slept late that morning -- well , he shudders yet over that `` if . '' But aforesaid Fate saw to it that he woke when the hour of destiny and the milk-can struck , and having awakened he found he could not go to sleep again . It suddenly occurred to him that he had never seen a sunrise on the pond . Doubtless it would be very lovely down there in those dewy meadows at such a primitive hour ; he decided to get up and see what the world looked like in the young daylight . He scowled at a letter lying on his dressing table and thrust it into his pocket that it might be out of sight . He had written it the night before and the writing of it was going to cost him several things -- a prospective million among others . So it is hardly to be wondered at if the sight of it did not reconcile him to the joys of early rising . `` Dear life and heart ! ''
exclaimed Mrs. Emory , pausing in the act XXXXX scalding a milk-can when Murray emerged from a side door .
So about among at for like of on till until