five o'clock
No irregular effort is distasteful to an Irishman of the lower classes , not if it entails on him the loss of a day 's food and the loss of a night 's rest ; the actual pleasure of the irregularity repays him for all this , and he never tells you that this or that is not his work . He prefers work that is not his own . Your coachman will have no objection to turn the mangle , but heaven and earth put together wo n't persuade him to take the horses out to exercise every morning at the same hour . These men had been told to come early , and they had been there on the road-side since five o'clock . It was not surprising that they were cold and hungry , listless and unhappy . And then , as young Fitzgerald was questioning the so-named gangmen as to the instructions they had received , a jaunting car came up to the foot of the hill . `` We war to wait for the ongineer , '' Shawn Brady had said , `` an ' shure an ' we have waited . ''