about eight o'clock
I thought I would cross over and go up the other side , and see how long he would stay . There was a girl or two going up ahead of me , and I see a man hurrying across from the drug store to Van Pelt 's corner . It was Pa , and as the girls went along and never looked around Pa looked mad and stepped into the doorway . It was about eight o'clock then , and Pa was tired , and I felt sorry for him and I went up to him and asked him for half a dollar to go to the Academy . I never knew him to shell out so freely and so quick . He gave me a dollar , and I told him I would go and get it changed and bring him back the half a dollar , but he said I need n't mind the change . It is awful mean of a boy that has always been treated well to play it on his Pa that way , and I felt ashamed .