about one o'clock
`` I do ; if you need any proof , I will now refer to Mr. Leman , the grocer , and Mr. Irwin , the provision-dealer ; and if you belong on this wharf , you must have seen me land from her more than once . '' `` I do n't want to quarrel with you , '' he added . `` I know the boat very well , and very likely I 've seen you in her ; but I do n't remember . I live close to the shore beyond the village , and I was waked up in the night -- it was about one o'clock , I guess -- by a lot of boys hollering . I got up , and found all these boats heaved up on the beach , and the boys trying to get 'em off . I helped 'em a while , and then brought the boats round here , for they would all got stove to pieces there . '' The man talked very well now , and I met him in the same spirit .