ten o'clock
With a considerable rattle of loose joints and four extraordinarily worn tires the Livingstone car was going by . David did not sleep well that night . He had not had his golf after all , for the Homer baby had sent out his advance notice early in the afternoon , and had himself arrived on Sunday evening , at the hour when Minnie was winding her clock and preparing to retire early for the Monday washing , and the Sayre butler was announcing dinner . Dick had come in at ten o'clock weary and triumphant , to announce that Richard Livingstone Homer , sex male , color white , weight nine pounds , had been safely delivered into this vale of tears . David lay in the great walnut bed which had been his mother 's , and read his prayer book by the light of his evening lamp . He read the Evening Prayer and the Litany , and then at last he resorted to the thirty-nine articles , which usually had a soporific effect on him . But it was no good .