five o'clock
`` You 're late , Barney . It 's nearly six , and you have to go to Morrison 's to-day . Here 's Ben with the horses fed . '' `` Why , mother , it 's only five o'clock by my watch . '' `` No , it 's six . '' Upon comparison Ben 's watch corresponded with the clock . Barney concluded something must be wrong and routed Dick up , and with such good purpose did they hasten through breakfast that in an hour from the time the boys were called they were standing in the field waiting for Ben to begin the day 's work .