four o’clock in the afternoon
Then the animals packed up ; and after they had turned off the water so the pipes would n't freeze , and put up the shutters , they closed the house and gave the key to the old horse who lived in the stable . And when they had seen that there was plenty of hay in the loft to last the horse through the Winter , they carried all their luggage down to the seashore and got on to the boat . The Cat 's - meat-Man was there to see them off ; and he brought a large suet-pudding as a present for the Doctor because , he said he had been told , you could n't get suet-puddings in foreign parts . As soon as they were on the ship , Gub-Gub , the pig , asked where the beds were , for it was four o'clock in the afternoon and he wanted his nap . So Polynesia took him downstairs into the inside of the ship and showed him the beds , set all on top of one another like book-shelves against a wall . `` Why , that is n't a bed ! '' cried Gub-Gub .