two in the morning
`` You certainly missed the biggest thing of your life when you did n't hire out to old Noah , '' he told Toby . `` Just think what a treat it 'd been to him , fellers , to stand there and check off all the animals big and little as they walked aboard the ark in pairs , the elephant and the kangaroo , and the little monkey too . But a measly storm ought n't to keep you at home , Toby . '' `` But they wo n't get in till near two in the morning , I 'm told , '' protested Toby ; `` and I guess my folks 'd put the kibosh on my staying out that late on a stormy night . '' `` Hurrah ! did you hear him say all that without a single stagger ? '' cried the boy with the bow-legs ; `` wisht my troubles 'd be as easy to drop as his stuttering is .