seven o'clock
He patted me on the head , and said : `` Tell your pa I will see him later , and in the meantime , you run your circus and I will try to run mine . '' The queerest thing happened that night . The senator 's boy spoke of our trained seals , that catch a fish if you throw it to them and swallow it whole . He said it would be fun to take a little alarm clock and sew it up in a fish , and set the alarm at seven o'clock p. m. , when the crowd is watching the seals swallow fish , and throw it to the big seal , and the alarm would go off inside him . Well , I bit like a bass , and said we would do it , so he took a little alarm clock and set it for seven o'clock . We got it into a fish , and I am ashamed to tell what happened . Gee , but that seal grabbed the fish with a clock in it , and tried to swallow it , but the brass ring caught on one of his teeth , and he was trying to get it loose when the alarm went off , and the seal jumped out of the tank and began to prance around the crowd , scaring the women , and making all the animals nervous .