eight o'clock
`` Hello , Pres , '' he called . `` Come over here and see how she looks ; '' he indicated the barn with a movement of his head . `` Well , we 're getting ready for you tonight , '' he went on as the two friends came up . `` But how we are going to get straightened out by eight o'clock I do n't know . Would you believe that pip Caraher is short of lemons -- at this last minute and I told him I 'd want three cases of 'em as much as a month ago , and here , just when I want a good lively saddle horse to get around on , somebody hikes the buckskin out the corral . STOLE her , by jingo . I 'll have the law on that thief if it breaks me -- and a sixty-dollar saddle 'n' head-stall gone with her ; and only about half the number of Jap lanterns that I ordered have shown up and not candles enough for those .