seven o'clock
`` ` The bears not come in day , ' Rahman said . `` ` Of course not , ' I replied ; ` still I may like to find out which way they come . Just do as you are told . ' `` The next morning , at seven o'clock , I was at the farmer 's spoken of , and there was no mistake as to the bears . A patch of Indian corn had been ruined by them , and two dogs had been killed . The native was in a terrible state of rage and alarm . He said that on moonlight nights he had seen eight of them , and they came and sniffed around the door of the cottage .