four o’clock
You ' member the Flint house : it stood on a little rise o ' ground jest lookin ' over towards the Brown house . Wal , there was Aunt Sally Dickerson and the Widder Bije Smith , they set up with the corpse . He was laid out in the back chamber , you see , over the milk-room and kitchen ; but there was cold victuals and sich in the front chamber , where the watchers sot . Wal , now , Aunt Sally she told me that between three and four o'clock she heard wheels a rumblin ' , and she went to the winder , and it was clear starlight ; and she see a coach come up to the Cap’n Brown house ; and she see the cap’n come out bringin ' a woman all wrapped in a cloak , and old Quassy came arter with her arms full o ' bundles ; and he put her into the kerridge , and shet her in , and it driv off ; and she see old Quassy stand lookin ' over the fence arter it . She tried to wake up the widder , but ' twas towards mornin ' , and the widder allers was a hard sleeper ; so there wa 'n' t no witness but her . ' `` Well , then , it was n't a ghost , '' said I , `` after all , and it _ was _ a woman . '' `` Wal , there ’t is , you see .