ten o'clock Saturday morning
It takes 75,000 of them to make one bale of cotton , so I 'm afraid you could n't make even a handkerchief out of these . `` I am so sorry about the oil well , but I did the best that I could to find it . `` Respectfully yours , `` CORDELIA WILSON . '' Long before ten o'clock Saturday morning -- the hour for sailing -- Mr. Hartley and his party were on board the big steamship which was to take them to New York . Here , again , new sensations and new experiences awaited the Happy Hexagons , not one of whom had ever been on so large a boat . `` I declare , I do just feel as if I was going abroad , '' breathed Cordelia , in an awestruck voice , as she crossed the gangplank . `` Well , I 'm sure we _ are _ , almost , '' exulted Genevieve .