ten o'clock in the morning
`` After that we had a most tranquil season during three months . The bill was prodigious , of course , and I had said I would not pay it until the new machinery had proved itself to be flawless . The time stipulated was three months . So I paid the bill , and the very next day the alarm went to buzzing like ten thousand bee swarms at ten o'clock in the morning . I turned the hands around twelve hours , according to instructions , and this took off the alarm ; but there was another hitch at night , and I had to set her ahead twelve hours once more to get her to put the alarm on again . That sort of nonsense went on a week or two , then the expert came up and put in a new clock . He came up every three months during the next three years , and put in a new clock .