about four
o'clock
Now in jail a day 's food and a day 's crank are too nicely balanced to admit of the weights being tampered with . So Robinson 's demi-starvation paved the way for further punishment . At one o'clock he was five hundred revolutions short , and instead of going to his dinner he was tied up in the infernal machine . Now the new chaplain came three times into the yard that day , and the third time , about four o'clock , he found Robinson pinned to the wall , jammed in the waistcoat and griped in the collar . His blood ran cold at sight of him , for the man had been hours in the pillory and nature was giving way . `` What has he done ? '' `` Refractory at crank . ''