eleven o'clock
`` Although , ought I not to wish that I might be struck dead ? '' he said ; `` as then all the world would know that though beaten , it had been by the hand of God , and not by our default . '' It astonished me to find that the boy was quite as eager about his cricket as I was about my Fixed Period . At eleven o'clock I was in my seat , and on looking round , I could see that all the rank and fashion of Britannula were at the ground . But all the rank and fashion were there for nothing , unless they had come armed with glasses . The spaces required by the cricketers were so enormous that otherwise they could not see anything of the play . Under my canopy there was room for five , of which I was supposed to be able to fill the middle thrones .