About ten o'clock
`` It was that ould Beezledum , '' Honeybird said ; `` he did n't like goin ' to church , an ' he ran away through the hedge . An he run on an ' on , an ' I thought I 'd niver catch him . An ' when I catched him , an begun to come home , I was awful tired , an ' I just sat down to get my breath , and Fly came and woke me up . '' About ten o'clock the others came home , despairing of ever seeing Honeybird again . They had met ould Davy at the gates , who told them to run on and see what was sitting by the kitchen fire . What was sitting by the kitchen fire when they came in was Honeybird eating hot buttered toast . Lull pulled up their stools to the fire , and took a plate of toast that she had made for them out of the oven .