four o'clock in the
morning
They seem to be burned off . '' `` O , thunder , did n't Pa tell you about the comet exploding and burning us all ? That was the worst thing since the flood , when Noar run the excursion boat from Kalamazoo to Mount Ararat . You see we had been reading about the comet , which is visible at four o'clock in the morning , and I heard Pa tell the hired girl to wake him and Ma up when she got up to set the pancakes and go to early mass so they could , see the comet . The hired girl is a Cathlick , and she do n't make no fuss about it , but she has got more good , square relidgin than a dozen like Pa. . It makes a good deal of difference how relidgin affects different people , do n't it . Now Pa 's relidgin makes him wild , and he wants to kick my pants , and pull my hair , but the hired girl 's relidgin makes her want to hug me , if I am abused , and she puts anarchy on my bruises , and gives me pie .