two o'clock in the morning
Well , I could n't sleep , and I thought I would call the hired girls , and they got up and got breakfast to going , and then I rapped on Pa and Ma 's door and told them the breakfast was getting cold , and they got up and came down . We eat breakfast by gas light , and Pa yawned and said it made a man feel good to get up and get ready for work before daylight , the way he used to on the farm , and Ma she yawned and agreed with Pa , 'cause she has to , or have a row . After breakfast we sat around for an hour , and Pa said it was a long time getting daylight , and bimeby Pa looked at his watch . When he began to pull out his watch I lit out and hid in the storeroom , and pretty soon I heard Pa and Ma come up stairs and go to bed , and then the hired girls , they went to bed , and when it was all still , and the pain had stopped inside of my clothes , I went to bed , and I looked to see what time it was and it was two o'clock in the morning . We got dinner at eight o'clock in the morning , and Pa said he guessed he would call up the house after this , so I have lost another job , and it was all on account of that bottle of pickled oysters you gave me . My chum says he had colic too , but he did n't call up his folks . It was all he could do to get up hisself .