one o'clock
We went to work at five -- I did this when I was six years old -- and worked until seven , when we had half an hour for breakfast . As I lived farther from the mill than most of the children who were enslaved there , my breakfast-time was very short . At half past seven we began again and worked until noon , when we had an hour for dinner . At one o'clock we took up work once more and quit at half past five for supper . At six we began our last trick and worked until eight -- thirteen hours of actual labor . I began this so young and did so much of it that I feel sure my growth was stunted by it -- I never grew above five feet seven , though my mother was a good-sized woman , and she told me that my father was six feet tall -- and my children are all tall . Maybe I should never have been tall anyhow , as the Dutch are usually broad rather than long .