five o'clock
Yow nivver know what characters they 've got . Why , I do believe -- it 's a turruble thing to say -- that some of they lads at work at big dree-ern hevve n't got no characters at all . '' `` Here be Hickathrift a-coming wi ' doctor , '' said John Warren . And sure enough there was the doctor on his old cob coming along the fen road , with Hickathrift striding by his side , the man of powder and draught having been from home with a patient miles away when Hickathrift reached the town , and not returning till five o'clock . `` He 'll do right enough , squire , '' said the doctor . `` Young man like he is soon mends a hole in his flesh . You did quite right ; but I suppose the bandaging was young Dick 's doing , for of all the clumsy bungling I ever saw it was about the worst . ''