three o'clock
It proved to be farmer Edwards , as Tom had surmised , and with him the Old Squire , himself . `` Well , well , well , boys , where have you been all night ? '' was their first salutation to us . Addison gave a brief account of our adventure ; we then proceeded homeward together , and were in time for Gram 's Thanksgiving dinner at three o'clock , for which it is needless to say that we brought large appetites . But I recall that the pleasures of the table for me were somewhat marred by my feet which continued to ache and burn painfully for two or three hours . There was a snowdrift six feet in depth before the farmhouse piazza . The drifts indeed had so changed the appearance of things around the house and yard that everything looked quite strange to me .