nine o'clock
For some reason , when Pop finished , I seemed to feel like maybe I did n't actually _ hate _ our new teacher , not very much anyway , and I thought maybe Shorty Long , even if he was a terribly tough boy , would be better if he had somebody pull some of the weeds out of him ... . After supper , we all took our regular Saturday night baths and went to bed , and the next thing we knew it was a wonderful morning , with the sun shining on the snow and with sleigh bells jingling on people 's horses , on account of some of our neighbors lived on roads where the road-conditioner had n't been through yet , and could n't use their cars and so had to use sleds instead . It was going to be a wonderful day all day , I thought , and was glad I was alive . Just before nine o'clock , we all started in our car toward Little Jim 's house , which was closer than Tom Till 's or Shorty Long 's . Little Jim came tumbling out his back door , his short legs carrying him fast out to the road . He got in and I was certainly tickled to see him . Mom and Pop and Charlotte Ann were in the front seat , so Charlotte Ann would be closer to our car heater and keep warm , on account of it was a cold morning .