I shall be in the middle of Sedgy Moor most likely when it begins--and who is to wake you?
I won't have your mother disturbed, and Tibby's not much to depend upon.

She's too hard-worked to wake when she likes, poor old thing." "Oh, I can be woke without anybody to do it!" said Willie.
"You don't mean you can depend on your water-wheel to wake you at the right time, do you ?" "Yes, I do, father.

If you will tell me exactly when the eclipse is going to begin, I will set my wakener so that it shall wake me a quarter-of-an-hour before, that I may be sure of seeing the very first of it." "Well, it will be worth something to you, if it can do that!" said Mr Macmichael.
"It's been worth a great deal to me, already," said Willie.

"It would have shown me an eclipse before now, only there hasn't been one since I set it going." And wake him it did.

While his father was riding across the moor, in the strange hush of the blotted moon, Willie was out in the garden beside his motionless wheel, watching the fell shadow of the earth passing over the blessed face of the moon, and leaving her pure and clear, and nothing the worse..