ten o’clock in the morning
So it was with M'Kay . He did not convert Drury Lane , but he saved two or three . One man whom we came to know was a labourer in Somerset House , a kind of coal porter employed in carrying coals into the offices there from the cellars below , and in other menial duties . He had about fifteen or sixteen shillings a week , and as the coals must necessarily be in the different rooms before ten o'clock in the morning , he began work early , and was obliged to live within an easy distance of the Strand . This man had originally been a small tradesman in a country town . He was honest , but he never could or never would push his trade in any way . He was fond of all kinds of little mechanical contrivings , disliked his shop , and ought to have been a carpenter or cabinet-maker -- not as a master but as a journeyman , for he had no ability whatever to control men or direct large operations .