four o'clock
Upon this occasion a riot was with difficulty averted . But old Joseph stood firm , and at the risk of his life carried the day . This was long years ago . Now , throughout the whole countryside it was known that no corpse passed through Rehoboth gates after four o'clock . * * * * * ` You 'll happen look in an ' see th ' owd woman afore yo ' go wom ' , ' said Joseph to Mr. Penrose , as the minister finished his entry of the funeral in the chapel register , ` hoo 's nobbud cratchenly -LRB- shaky -RRB- . ' Joseph and his wife lived in the lower room of a three-storied cottage at the end of the chapel , the second and third stories of the said cottage being utilized by the Rehoboth members as Sunday-schools . Entering , Mr. Penrose saw the old woman crouching over the hearth and doing her best to feed the fast-dying fires of her vitality .