about ten o'clock
We was getting along in one another 's estimations fine . Thinks I , if Jackson Bird can now be persuaded to migrate , I win . I recollect his promise about the pancake receipt , and I thinks I will persuade it from Miss Willella and give it to him ; and then if I catches Birdie off of Mired Mule again , I 'll make him hop the twig . `` So , along about ten o'clock , I put on a wheedling smile and says to Miss Willella : ` Now , if there 's anything I do like better than the sight of a red steer on green grass it 's the taste of a nice hot pancake smothered in sugar-house molasses . ' `` Miss Willella gives a little jump on the piano stool , and looked at me curious . '' ` Yes , ' says she , ` they 're real nice . What did you say was the name of that street in Saint Louis , Mr. Odom , where you lost your hat ? ' ''