seven in the morning
I thought he meant to have the fellow in to talk with him or play checkers , to while away the time that hung so heavy on his hands . But it was n't this at all -- except for a halfway pretense at the beginning . No ; he paid Iosefo ten dollars a week , for what do you think ? To sit on one of his trunks -LRB- _ the _ trunk , I reckon -RRB- from seven in the morning till six at night , barring service time Sundays . Yes , sir ; nothing else than a squatting sentry , mounting guard over the boodle inside the trunk and protecting it from me ! I wonder what the home missionary society would have said to see Brother Iosefo yawning all day on the top of a trunk , or writing his sermon on his knee , Saturdays ! At first I felt pretty hot about it , for it smacked too much of setting a thief to catch a thief , or at least offsetting the pastor and me like the compensating idea of a ship 's chronometer ; but my wife liked the respectability it give us before the natives ; and Tom said my resenting it would be like putting the cap on my head .