three o'clock
`` Here , '' he said to me , `` you 're not doing anything , are you ? Well , take this awful bunch of mushy slush and read it through , and then try to make a decent half-column story out of it . And rush it over a page at a time , will you ? We 've got to hustle to catch the three o'clock edition with it . '' Long before three o'clock the major was back in the shop , waiting for the first run of papers to come off the press . Furtively I watched him as he hunted through the sticky pages to find his first story . I guess he had the budding pride of authorship in him , just as all the rest of us have it in us .