about eleven o'clock in the morning
At seven o'clock he turned up bright and early at the fishmonger 's shop where he was employed . His employer , Mr. Blades , was in a fairly prosperous way of business in one of the secondary streets of the town . Mr. Blades looked after the shop ; his son , a young man of twenty-three , drove a trap round with the customers ' orders ; and two boys , of whom Chippy was one , cleaned up , fetched and carried , ran short distances with pressing orders , and made themselves generally useful . All went as usual until about eleven o'clock in the morning , when Chippy was despatched to deliver four or five small bags of fish at the houses of customers who lived within easy reach . He handed in the last bag of fish at the kitchen door of a semi-detached house , and the mistress took it in herself . Chippy was going out at the gate , when he heard himself called back . He returned to the door .