eight o'clock
We were afraid at first that godmother had made a great mistake in planning to take him on a coon hunt . But it turned out that she was right , as she always is . He told us afterward he had never enjoyed anything so much in all his life . `` It was just eight o'clock when we set out on the hunt last night . A big hay-wagon drove up to the door with the party from The Beeches already stowed away in it , sitting flat on the hay in the bottom . Mrs. Walton was with them , and Miss Allison and Katie Mallard and her father , and several others they had picked up on the way . `` While they were laughing and talking and everybody was being introduced , Alec came driving up from the barn with another big wagon , and we all piled into it except Lloyd and Rob , Joyce and Phil .