nearly one o'clock
`` Well , we might give you three dollars a week after the first month , but that is our limit for an errand boy . '' `` I ca n't take it , '' answered Nat . `` I 've got to earn more , '' and after a little additional talking he left the seed store . He had a lunch in a bit of newspaper , and as it was nearly one o'clock , he sat down on a box on the sidewalk and ate it , washing it down with a drink of water from a cooler in a railroad ticket office . Then he went on his way once more , but at sundown had to give it up . He was so tired , and his feet were so sore from the pavements , that he could scarcely walk to his boarding house . `` I trust you found something , '' said Mrs. Talcott , as he entered .