four o'clock
`` They say there 's a crowd coming down from the quarries to-night to hear it . '' `` Faith , an ' it 's Mr. Van Ostend will be after havin ' to put on an a trailer to his new hall , '' said McCann ; `` the b ` ys know a good thing whin they see it , an ' we was like to smother , the whole kit of us , whin they had the last pitchers of them mountins in Alasky on the sheet . It 's the stairioptican that takes best wid the b ` ys . '' The four o'clock whistle began to sound . Three hundred chisels and hammers were dropped on the instant . The men hurried to the doors that were opened their full width to give egress to the hastening throngs . They streamed out ; there was laughing and chaffing ; now and then , among the younger ones , some good-natured fisticuffs were exchanged .