four o'clock
Much better seemed Jasper 's answer when Harry once asked him for twenty acres ' seed : `` Take half that 's in the granary , if you want it . Damnation ! why did n't you come before ? '' We retired early , Harry and I , to sleep in the same room , with the rusty stove-pipe running through it ; and we rose , I think , at four o'clock ; while an hour later the feet of the big plow-oxen were trampling the rich loam where the frost had mellowed the fall back-setting . We worked until nine that night , and I had words with Coombs when he gave me directions about plowing . We do not get our land for nothing in Lancashire , and so learn to work the utmost out of every foot of it . However , I do not purpose to dilate upon either disc-harrows or breaking prairie , nor even the cutting of wild hay -- which harsh and wiry product is excellent feeding -- for all these matters will be mentioned again .