five o'clock
The name of Leather-Twigg having proved , at an early date in his career , too great a mouthful for Wrykyn , he was known to his friends and acquaintances by the euphonious title of Shoeblossom . The charm about the genial Shoeblossom was that you could never tell what he was going to do next . All that you could rely on with any certainty was that it would be something which would have been better left undone . It was just five o'clock when Barry and M'Todd started to get things ready . They were not high enough up in the school to have fags , so that they had to do this for themselves . Barry was still in football clothes . He had been out running and passing with the first fifteen .