forty-nine minutes to twelve
He held it out into the bright moonlight . `` Geminy crickets ! '' he exclaimed . `` It 's forty-nine minutes to twelve ! '' Anderson Crow 's policy was to always look at things through the small end of the telescope . The slow , hot summer wore away , and to Rosalie it was the longest that she ever had experienced . She was tired of the ceaseless twaddle of Tinkletown , its flow of `` missions , '' `` sociables , '' `` buggy-horses , '' `` George Rawlin 's new dress-suit , '' `` harvesting , '' and `` politics '' -- for even the children talked politics .