six o'clock in the evening
Then they read them together , and did indeed see something ! The growth of Arthur 's observation both in extent and quality , also the growth of his faculty for narrating what he saw , were remarkable both to himself and his instructor . The number of things and circumstances he was able to see by the end of the month , compared with the number he had seen in the beginning of it , was wonderful ; while the mode of his record had changed from that of a child to that almost of a man . Mr. Wingfold next , as by that time the weather was quite warm , set him `` The task of six o'clock in the evening , '' when the things that presented themselves to his notice would be very different . After a fortnight , he changed again the hour of his observation , and went on changing it . So that at length the youth who had , twice every day , walked along Cheapside almost without seeing that one face differed from another , knew most of the birds and many of the insects , and could in general tell what they were about , while the domestic animals were his familiar friends . He delighted in the grass and the wild flowers , the sky and the clouds and the stars , and knew , after a real , vital fashion , the world in which he lived .