eight o'clock
Mac maintains with stubborn ingenuity that Doctor Johnson and Goldsmith did `` write-ups , '' just as Shakespeare wrote melodramas , and Turner did `` bird 's - eye views . '' I make no such claim . The point is that a write-up brings in fifty dollars , while sonnets are a drug in the market . For this reason I sprang out of bed with unusual alacrity and prepared to catch the eight o'clock express . `` It may mean a ` bird 's - eye , ' '' I remarked , as I bolted my breakfast . `` You can make the suggestion , '' returned Mac , passing me half a grape fruit . `` There 's no need to introduce either mosquitoes or ice-floes into a ` bird 's - eye . ' ''