four o'clock in the morning
The hired girl is a Cathlick , and she do n't make no fuss about it , but she has got more good , square relidgin than a dozen like Pa. . It makes a good deal of difference how relidgin affects different people , do n't it . Now Pa 's relidgin makes him wild , and he wants to kick my pants , and pull my hair , but the hired girl 's relidgin makes her want to hug me , if I am abused , and she puts anarchy on my bruises , and gives me pie . Pa would n't get up at four o'clock in the morning to go to early mass , unless he could take a fish pole along and some angel worms . The hired girl prays when no one sees her but God , but Pa wants to get a church full of sisterin ' , and pray loud , as though he was an auctioneer selling tin razors . Say , it beats all what a difference liver medicine has on two people , too . Now that hickory nut day , when me and my chum got full of Pa 's liver medicine , I felt so good natured I gave my hickory nuts away to the children , and wanted to give my coat and pants to a poor tramp , but my chum , who ai n't no bigger 'n me , got on his ear and wanted to kick the socks off a little girl who was going home from school .