ten o'clock
`` Have you got the pencil and the needle and the waxed silk ? Then bring the camphor bottle to revive me , and the coral pendants , too , just to give me courage . Hurry up ! It 's ten o'clock . I was born at sun-rise , so I 'm ` going on ' eighteen and ca n't waste any time ! '' FOXWELL BAXTER was ordinarily called `` Old Foxy '' by the boys of the district , and also , it is to be feared , by the men gathered for evening conference at the various taverns , or at one of the rival village stores . He had a small farm of fifteen or twenty acres , with a pasture , a wood lot , and a hay-field , but the principal source of his income came from trading .