five o'clock
`` It would bring the blackguards . If the blackguards once find him out , it is all over with him . '' `` The blackguards are all in factory now , and I am sure they can not see us from the windows . They wo n't be out till five o'clock . '' With the true liberality of young England , which abides even now as large and glorious as ever , we always called the free and enlightened operatives of the period by the courteous name above set down , and it must be acknowledged that some of them deserved it , although perhaps they poached with less of science than their sons . But the cowardly murder of fish by liming the water was already prevalent . Yielding to my request and perhaps his own desire -- manfully kept in check that morning -- Pike very carefully approached that pool , commanding me to sit down while he reconnoitred from the meadow upon the right bank of the stream .