ten o'clock
Besides that , we used to have doughnuts , -- you do n't know what doughnuts are here in Massachusetts ; as big as a dinner-plate those doughnuts were , and -- well , a little hard , perhaps . They used to have it about in Bangor that we used them for clock pendulums , but I do n't know about that . I used to think a great deal about Nancy nights , when we were sitting up by the fire , -- we had our fire right in the middle of the hut , you know , with a hole in the roof to let the smoke out . When supper was eaten , the boys all sat up around it , and told stories , and sang , and cracked their jokes ; then they had their backgammon and cards ; we got sleepy early , along about nine or ten o'clock , and turned in under the roof with our blankets . The roof sloped down , you know , to the ground ; so we lay with our heads in under the little eaves , and our feet to the fire , -- ten or twelve of us to a shanty , all round in a row . They built the huts up like a baby 's cob-house , with the logs fitted in together . I used to think a great deal about your mother , as I was saying ; sometimes I would lie awake when the rest were off as sound as a top , and think about her .