Four o'clock
`` What time is it , then ? '' asked Bert . Freddie looked at his watch and counted around it two or three times . `` Four o'clock ! '' he said at last , and he was only twenty minutes out of the way . The watch was the kind little boys use first , with very plain figures on it , and it was quite certain before Freddie paid his next visit to Uncle Daniel 's he would have learned how to tell time exactly on his first `` real '' watch . The party was over , the children said good bye , and besides the play favors each carried away a real gift , that of friendship for the little Bobbseys .