three o'clock
in the afternoon
`` Well , once you were a little boy only so high , and I was a little girl only so high . We both lived in this village and we went to school together . We studied out of the same books together . At three o'clock in the afternoon school was out , and then we put our books in our desks and the teacher let us go and play . There was a pond of water , and it often froze over with smooth black ice . You and I used to go together to that pond ; and you would fasten my skates on my feet -- '' `` Hanged ef I would n't do it agin , '' he cried , greatly pleased . `` Yer beats 'em all .