a quarter to seven
They went about in their youth in flannel or paper caps , in coats black with coal-dust or streaked with lime and red paint ; in old age their white hairs are seen in a place of honour at church and at market , and they tell their well-dressed sons and daughters , seated round the bright hearth on winter evenings , how pleased they were when they first earned their twopence a-day . Others there are who die poor and never put off the workman 's coat on weekdays . They have not had the art of getting rich , but they are men of trust , and when they die before the work is all out of them , it is as if some main screw had got loose in a machine ; the master who employed them says , `` Where shall I find their like ? '' Adam Visits the Hall Farm ADAM came back from his work in the empty waggon -- that was why he had changed his clothes -- and was ready to set out to the Hall Farm when it still wanted a quarter to seven . `` What 's thee got thy Sunday cloose on for ? '' said Lisbeth complainingly , as he came downstairs . `` Thee artna goin ' to th ' school i ' thy best coat ? ''