eleven o'clock
`` Do yes be aisy now , and not be interruptin ' of me , and yer observations and questions which ai n't naaded in this case . Me owld grandfather used to till a great many stories to us spalpaans about the part he took with young Emmett -- when owld Ireland stood up against England . He used to tell us his stories -- did the same -- and just so sure as one of us axed him a question , he 'd go back to the beginning and till the whole story over again . He 'd begin airly in the evening , and kaap it going till tin or eleven o'clock . I belave the old gintleman rather liked to have us be interruptin ' him , for he laid bates for us wee ones , and ye see by that manes one story sometimes kept him going for a waak . Heaven bliss the owld gintleman -- he had a habit of stopping in the middle of an exciting part and lighting his dudheen , and then when he 'd begin again , he 'd skip over a part on purpose to make us ax him a question -- '' `` Well , Tim , we will talk about your grandfather some other day , '' said Howard , who , as naturally may be supposed , was impatient for him to come to the point . `` Yis , I was just through with him , but yees should never be overmuch in haste .