five o'clock in the morning
But they 've probably been laid a couple of hours earlier . `` That 's going to make us awfully late to produce anything for those babbling reporters , '' the scientist said . `` Come to think of it , '' Johnny said thoughtfully , `` we could rig up a light in the chicken house and make the hens lay earlier . That way you could have some eggs about four or five o'clock in the morning . '' Barney had been listening . `` And them eggs make a mighty fine breakfast of a morning , '' he volunteered cheerfully . Peterson glared at him and Johnny grinned .