eight o'clock in the morning
People in our village had not been accustomed to address old ladies as madam , and they did not take kindly to it . Grandma Cobb was of a very sociable disposition , and she soon developed the habit of dropping into the village houses at all hours of the day and evening . She was an early riser , and all the rest of her family slept late , and she probably found it lonesome . She often made a call as early as eight o'clock in the morning , and she came as late as ten o'clock in the evening . When she came in the morning she talked , and when she came in the evening she sat in her chair and nodded . She often kept the whole family up , and it was less exasperating when she came in the morning , though it was unfortunate for the Jamesons . If a bulletin devoted to the biography of the Jameson family had been posted every week on the wall of the town house it could have been no more explicit than was Grandma Cobb .