about eight o'clock
`` You 're right , Solomon ; I 'd forgotten the dogs , '' and he groaned again . Mahaffy closed and fastened the shutter , then he and Hannibal stole across the clearing and entered the woods . The judge flung off his clothes and went to bed , determined to sleep away as many hours as possible . He was only aroused by the arrival of his breakfast , which the sheriff brought about eight o'clock . `` Well , if I was in your boots I could n't sleep like you ! '' remarked that official admiringly . `` But I reckon , sir , this ai n't the first time the penitentiary has stared you in the face . ''