seven o’clock
Everdoze had gone to bed -LRB- at eight P. M. -RRB- in obscurity . It had awakened to find itself dragged into the light of day . Already Constable Bungel was devising a formidable code of `` traffic regulations '' -- traps and snares to catch the prosperous and make them pay tribute as they passed along . As early as seven o'clock that vigilant agent of the peace had placed a sign in front of the post office -LRB- where he was wont to loiter -RRB- reading , `` NO PARKING HERE . '' But all the while he hoped that the unwary would park there and pay the three dollars and costs . But of all the signs which appeared in Everdoze on that day when fate , like an alarm clock , had awakened it out of its slumber , there was one which thrilled the soul of Pee-wee Harris and caused consternation to everybody else . This appeared in front of the `` Taown Hall '' and at a number of other strategic places in and out of the village .