two o'clock
This St. Louis preacher had been a college chum of Preacher Bonds , and was full of the Mount Olivet persuasion . Those were in the days before undertakers and other such modern conveniences had been introduced into that country . Jake Benton , good soul , went to Dobbinsville after the coffin and hauled it back in the same old lumber wagon he had hauled Evangelist Blank in five years before . The funeral was arranged for Wednesday afternoon at two o'clock . A handful of ashes , together with the pocket-knife and other articles found in the ash-heap , was taken and wrapped in a napkin and placed in the big new coffin . On Wednesday afternoon , when two o'clock arrived , the two front rooms of the Gramps farmhouse were crammed full of people . The yard was full , too .