about six o'clock
He begins by making Wilbur peel the cinnamon brown costume , drapin ' him in a couple of bath robes , while Swifty takes the suit out to one of these pants-pressed-while you wait places . When it comes back with creases in the legs , he hustles Wilbur into a cab and starts for a barber shop . Say , I do n't suppose Cobb 'll ever know it ; but if he 'd been huntin ' for expert help along that line , he could n't have tumbled into better hands than he did when Pinckney gets interested in his case . When they floats in again , along about six o'clock , I hardly knows Wilbur for the same party . He 's wearin ' a long black ulster that covers up most of the plaid nightmare ; he 's shook the woolly lid for a fall block derby , he 's had his face scraped and powdered , and his neck ringlets trimmed up ; and he even sports a pair of yellow kids and a silver headed stick . `` Gosh ! '' says I. `` Looks like you 'd run him through a finishing machine .