six o'clock
`` Why -- I thought you and Nancy were doing it . I heard you trying to get a rhyme for ` Susan . ' '' `` Well , we could n't , '' said Judith weakly ; `` I thought you had one written already . '' `` We 'll have to get up at six o'clock , every one of us , '' declared Nancy ; `` put a pencil and paper beside your bed ; each of us has got to have a rhyme and then we 'll choose the best . '' There was much yawning and stifled groaning next morning , but Nancy was firm and refused to retire to her own cubicle until she had seen each member of the crew provided with pencil and paper . The fires of poetic genius burned low at such an early morning hour , but they knew , as well as Nancy did , that there would be no time after breakfast . So after much frowning and biting of pencils , five verses were written , and handed to Catherine to choose the best .