three in the morning
`` What did you get ? '' `` Forty shillings , or a month , '' said Wilton , promptly , -- `` next morning bright and early . They were working us off , three a minute . A girl in a pink hat -- she was brought in at three in the morning -- got ten days . I suppose I was lucky . I must have knocked his senses out of the guard . He told the old duck on the bench that I had told him I was a sergeant in the army , and that I was gathering beetles on the track .