eight o'clock
The events of the preceding day rose in gradual succession before me , and I proceeded to descend from the heights I had scaled the night before . -LSB- Illustration : DAVID ROLLIN INSULTS LUTHER . -RSB- I looked at my watch . It was eight o'clock , and school should begin at nine . Yet the occasion witnessed no feverish display of haste on my part , I saw that the difficulties which I was destined to endure in the Performance of my toilet that morning called either for philosophy or madness . I chose philosophy . The portion of the Ark surrounding my bed was cut up into little recesses , crannies , nooks , -- used , presumably , for storing the different pairs of animals in the trying events which preceded the Flood .