seven o'clock
`` Now go up . It 's high time we were all in bed again . '' Sam was not called at as early an hour as the deacon intended . The worthy man , in consequence of his slumbers being interrupted , overslept himself , and it was seven o'clock when he called Sam . `` Get up , Samuel , '' he said ; `` it 's dreadful late , and you must be spry , or you wo n't catch up with the work . '' Work , however , was not prominent in Sam 's mind , as his answer showed . `` Is breakfast ready ? ''