Possible Clues:

• As shoe may be repaired
• Swivelled round, missing wife, and followed like a good dog
• Followed closely, like a dog
• Carried out shoe repairs as listed
• Followed, as a dog
• Obeyed a canine command
• Not the sole job for the scrum to have done
• Well this well off as well
• What the scrum did and made it well by the sound of it
• Was an obedient dog, in a way