about six o'clock
Alf Reesling finally found some one who would listen to his story . He told the minister and the minister alarmed the town . To be brief , Alf admitted that ` Rast Little was at his house in the outskirts of the village , laid up with a broken arm and a bad cut in the top of his head . `` He came crawlin ' up to my place about six o'clock in the mornin ' , '' explained Alf , `` an ' I took the poor cuss in . That 's what I wanted to tell Anderson , but the old rip would n't listen to me . Seems as though ` Rast waited around the schoolhouse last night to git a crack at that feller from town . Miss Banks and her three friends set around the stove in the schoolhouse for about an hour after the crowd left , an ' ` Rast got so cold he liked to died out there in the woodshed .