eight o'clock
That evening my wife and I took tea in our honeysuckle arbor , with our little ones and a friend or two , to whom I showed my treasures , and expatiated at large on the comforts and conveniences of the new patent hive . But alas for the hopes of man ! The little ungrateful wretches -- what must they do but take advantage of my oversleeping myself , the next morning , to clear out for new quarters without so much as leaving me a P. P. C. ! Such was the fact ; at eight o'clock I found the new patent hive as good as ever ; but the bees I have never seen from that day to this ! `` The rascally little conservatives ! '' said I ; `` I believe they have never had a new idea from the days of Virgil down , and are entirely unprepared to appreciate improvements . '' Meanwhile the seeds began to germinate in our garden , when we found , to our chagrin , that , between John Bull and Paddy , there had occurred sundry confusions in the several departments .