five o'clock
Ask your neighbour there at the next table whether the partridge that they sometimes serve to you here can be compared for a moment to the birds that he and you , or he and some one else , used to shoot as boys in the spruce thickets along the lake . Ask him if he ever tasted duck that could for a moment be compared to the black ducks in the rice marsh along the Ossawippi . And as for fish , and fishing , -- no , do n't ask him about that , for if he ever starts telling you of the chub they used to catch below the mill dam and the green bass that used to lie in the water-shadow of the rocks beside the Indian 's Island , not even the long dull evening in this club would be long enough for the telling of it . But no wonder they do n't know about the five o'clock train for Mariposa . Very few people know about it . Hundreds of them know that there is a train that goes out at five o'clock , but they mistake it . Ever so many of them think it 's just a suburban train .