five o'clock
She was elegant then -- all pink silk ruffles with a little wreath of forget-me-nots in her hair . I crowed over all the children I knew because she was so fine , but I must be getting home . Children dear , I wonder if your mothers would mind if you ran down to the postoffice to mail this letter for me . I want it to get off on the five o'clock train . '' Chicken Little 's boasted luck seemed about to fail her entirely on her birthday morning . She got up late and was so excited over her little remembrances that she almost forgot to get ready for school . She ran as hard as she could , so hard she had a stitch in her side , but the last child in the line was disappearing inside the school-house door , when she was still half a block away .