about seven o'clock
`` But I thought you told me you did n't read much , Mr. Bass ? '' He made no direct reply , but unfolded the newspaper in his hand , and then Wetherell saw that it was only a clipping . `` H-happened to run across this in a newspaper -- if this hai n't this county , I wah n't born and raised here . If it hai n't Coniston Mountain about seven o'clock of a June evening , I never saw Coniston Mountain . Er -- listen to this . '' Whereupon he read , with a feeling which Wetherell had not supposed he possessed , an extract : and as the storekeeper listened his blood began to run wildly . At length Jethro put down the paper without glancing at his companion .