ten
o'clock
The Italian woman was Mrs. Maria Lepanto . She lives in Thompson Street , but she had come all the way down to the corner of Elizabeth and Canal streets with her little girl to look at a procession passing by . That , as everybody knows , is next door to Chinatown . It was ten o'clock , and the end of the procession was in sight , when she noticed something stirring in an ash barrel that stood against the wall . She thought first it was a rat , and was going to run , when a noise that was certainly not a rat 's squeal came from the barrel . The child clung to her hand and dragged her toward the sound . `` Oh , mamma ! ''