ten o'clock
They 'd find him on the ground nex ' morning , and he lowed the master war made of that air sort of stuff as would burn the dog-on 'd ole school-house to ashes , or blow it into splinters , but what he 'd beat . Howsumdever he 'd said he was a-goin ' to help , and help he would ; but all the sinno in Golier would n't be no account again the cute they was in the head of the master . '' But Bud , discouraged as he was with the fear of Ralph 's `` cute , '' went like a martyr to the stake and took his place with the rest in the school-house at nine o'clock at night . It may have been Ralph 's intention to preoccupy the school-house , for at ten o'clock Hank Banta was set shaking from head to foot at seeing a face that looked like the master 's at the window . He waked up Bud and told him about it . `` Well , what are you a-tremblin ' about , you coward ? '' growled Bud .