four o'clock
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`` What , father ? '' asked his son in a voice of mingled uneasiness and surprise . `` Why , just listen to this advertisement : -- ` I hereby challenge the working-men of this neighbourhood to a trial of skill in running , leaping , and shooting ; and I promise to give a sovereign to any man who shall beat me in a mile race , a high jump , and firing at a mark . The trial to come off on Marley Heath , on Tuesday , June 8th , at four o'clock p.m. '' ` Signed , Walter Huntingdon , Flixworth Manor . ' -- Do you know anything about this , Walter ? Did you really put this advertisement into the paper ? or is it a disgraceful hoax ? ''