six in the morning
`` Doing well ? '' `` The business , '' replied Hezekiah , `` is going up by leaps and bounds -- leaps and bounds . But , of course , all that means harder work for me . It 's from six in the morning till twelve o'clock at night . '' `` There 's nothing I know of , '' returned Solomon , who was something of a pessimist , `` that 's given away free gratis for nothing except misfortune . '' `` Keeping yourself up to the mark ai n't too easy , '' continued Hezekiah ; `` and when it comes to other folks ! play 's all they think of .