six o'clock
And that would not be so bad , only for the deadly contagion . The cut may heal , but you never can tell . Twice now ; within the last three years , Mikolas has been lying at home with blood poisoning -- once for three months and once for nearly seven . The last time , too , he lost his job , and that meant six weeks more of standing at the doors of the packing houses , at six o'clock on bitter winter mornings , with a foot of snow on the ground and more in the air . There are learned people who can tell you out of the statistics that beef-boners make forty cents an hour , but , perhaps , these people have never looked into a beef-boner 's hands . When Tamoszius and his companions stop for a rest , as perforce they must , now and then , the dancers halt where they are and wait patiently . They never seem to tire ; and there is no place for them to sit down if they did .