Related Clues:

• I'd acted as a guide, yet didn't do much work
• Did little after I'd made the running
• Ticked over
• The setter's daughter showed the way, and ran slowly
• Lazed about
• I had conducted the carollers, perhaps, but became lazy
• Ticked over, investing old money in rising food store
• I had taken the initiative and watched others working?
• Oddly indulged by day and did nothing
• Was lazy
• Didn't go anywhere
• Did very little
• I had been in front, but became lazy
• Warmed an engine
• Did some whittling, say