Saturday afternoon, about four o'clock
Thus , brightly armed , and further equipped with a measure of good looks , of a hair-oily , shopping-district-at-three-in-the-afternoon kind , it seems that Joe , of the Lilliputian emporium , had a rival worthy of his steel . But Joe carried no steel . There would n't have been room in his store to draw it if he had . One Saturday afternoon , about four o'clock , Daisy and Mr. Dabster stopped before Joe 's booth . Dabster wore a silk hat , and -- well , Daisy was a woman , and that hat had no chance to get back in its box until Joe had seen it . A stick of pineapple chewing gum was the ostensible object of the call . Joe supplied it through the open side of his store .