About five o'clock
Moreover , we flaunted our domestic loyalty by partaking of no Sudleigh fluid within the grounds . We carried tea , coffee , lemonade , milk , an ambitious variety of drinks , in order that even our children might be spared the public disgrace of tasting Sudleigh water ; and it was a part of our excellent fooling to invite every Sudleighian to drink with us . Even the virtues , however , spare their votaries no pang ; and in every family , this unbending fealty resulted in the individual members ' betaking themselves to the pump or well , immediately on getting home , even before attempting to unharness . About five o'clock , on circus-afternoon , there would be a general rumbling of buckets and creaking of sweeps , while a chorus rose to heaven , `` My ! I was ` most choked ! '' But our _ fête _ - day dawned bright and speckless . We rose before three o'clock , every man , woman and child of us , to see the procession come into town .