six o'clock
If I had won , this was in accord with my mood ; if I had lost , it made me forget . I at last realized that making cigars for a living and gambling for a living could not both be carried on at the same time , and I resolved to give up the cigar making . This resolution led me into a life which held me bound more than a year . During that period my regular time for going to bed was somewhere between four and six o'clock in the mornings . I got up late in the afternoons , walked about a little , then went to the gambling house or the `` Club . '' My New York was limited to ten blocks ; the boundaries were Sixth Avenue from Twenty-third to Thirty-third Streets , with the cross streets one block to the west . Central Park was a distant forest , and the lower part of the city a foreign land .