about six o'clock
The next afternoon that remarkable canine was decoyed , by the usual bone , into the box in which he had arrived . Being in , the cover was securely renailed above him . Brown and the light-keeper lifted the box into the back part of the `` open wagon , '' and Atkins drove triumphantly away , the pup 's agonized protests against the journey serving as spurs to urge Joshua faster along the road to the village . When , about six o'clock , Seth reentered the yard , he was grinning broadly . `` Well , '' inquired Brown , `` did he take him back willingly ? '' `` Who ? Henry G. ?