about four o'clock
`` I ricollect how everybody was talkin ' about the speakin ' that day . Abram come home from the barbecue , and , says he , ` Jane , I have n't heard such a speech as that since the days of old Humphrey Marshall ; and as for the barbecue , all it needed was Judge McGowan to set at the head o ' the table . But then , ' says he , ` I reckon it was natural for Harvey to want to take his cousin home with him . ' `` That was about four o'clock , and it was n't more than two hours till we heard a horse gallopin ' way up the pike . I 'd jest washed the supper dishes , and me and Abram was out on the back porch , and I had the baby in my arms . There was somethin' in the sound o ' the horse 's hoofs that told me he was carryin ' bad news , and I jumped up , and says I , ` Abram , some awful thing has happened . ' And he says , ` Jane , are you crazy ? '