about ten o'clock
Then they all winked . `` The spoutin ' bloke sez he likes his fill iv tangle , '' said Bill , `` well he 'll get it t-night . I 'm goin t ' stand a spree fer me poor relation . '' That night at about ten o'clock , when Professor Thunder was concentrating the attention of his patrons on the fascinating boniness of Matty Cann , Nickie , who was taking his ease on the straw , became aware of a slight disturbance at his elbow , between the back of his cage and the tent wall . Blinking his eyes he discovered the shape of a man in the darkness . The man held a pannikin in one hand , and was offering it through the bars . `` Here , old boy .