about four o'clock
But the temperance men made a show on the Fourth of July as well as the drunkards , and the Sons of Temperance walked in the procession with the Masons and the Odd-Fellows . Sometimes they got hold of a whole Fourth , and then there was nothing but a temperance picnic in the Sycamore Grove , which the boys took part in as Sunday-school scholars . It was not gay ; there was no good reason why it should leave the boys with the feeling of having been cheated out of their holiday , but it did . A boy 's Fourth of July seemed to end about four o'clock , anyhow . After that , he began to feel gloomy , no matter what sort of a time he had . That was the way he felt after almost any holiday . Market-day was a highday in the Boy 's Town , and it would be hard to say whether it was more so in summer than in winter .