seven o'clock in the
morning
-- for I feel knocked up with my week 's work ! -LRB- A yawn . -RRB- What a life mine is , to be sure ! Here am I , in my eight-and-twentieth year , and for four long years have been one of the shopmen at Tag-rag & Co. 's , slaving from half-past seven o'clock in the morning till nine at night , and all for a salary of thirty-five pounds a-year , and my board ! And Mr. Tag-rag -- eugh ! what a beast ! -- is always telling me how high he 's raised my salary !!