ten o'clock
And what does that go to prove ? Bottles talks to nobody , and hears nobody unless he is absolutely roared at , and what alarm has Bottles ever given , or taken ? None . '' This was perfectly true ; the individual in question having retired , every night at ten o'clock , to his bed over the coach-house , with no other company than a pitchfork and a pail of water . That the pail of water would have been over me , and the pitchfork through me , if I had put myself without announcement in Bottles 's way after that minute , I had deposited in my own mind as a fact worth remembering . Neither had Bottles ever taken the least notice of any of our many uproars . An imperturbable and speechless man , he had sat at his supper , with Streaker present in a swoon , and the Odd Girl marble , and had only put another potato in his cheek , or profited by the general misery to help himself to beefsteak pie .