About five o'clock
-LRB- Whack . -RRB- `` ` Success , Barney , and here 's at your sarvice , avick , not making little of what I got , any way . ' -LRB- Crack . -RRB- `` About five o'clock on a May evening , in the fair of Knockimdowny , was the ice thus broken , with all possible civility , by Ned and Barney . The next moment a general rush took place towards the scene of action , and ere you could bless yourself , Barney and Ned were both down , weltering in their own and each other 's blood . I scarcely know , indeed , though with a mighty respectable quota of experimentality myself , how to describe what followed . For the first twenty minutes the general harmony of this fine row might be set to music , according to a scale something like this : -- Whick whack -- crick crack -- whick whack -- crick crack -- & c , & c , & o. ` Here yer sowl -- -LRB- crack -RRB- -- there yer sowl -- -LRB- whack -RRB- .