eight o'clock
Then we saw one or two other things , I forget what , but this I know , that , generally speaking , the outside was better than the inside . After this , feeling very hungry , we agreed to go into a booth and have something to eat . The tables were ranged all round , and in the centre there was a boarded platform for dancing . The ladies were there all ready dressed for partners : and the music was so lively , that I felt very much inclined to dance , but we had agreed to go and see the wild beasts fed at Mr Polito 's menagerie , and as it was now almost eight o'clock , we paid our bill and set off . It was a very curious sight , and better worth seeing than anything in the fair ; I never had an idea that there were so many strange animals in existence . There was the tapir , a great pig with a long nose , a variety of the hippopotamus , which the keeper said was an amphibilious animal , as could n't live on land , and _ dies _ in the water -- however , it seemed to live very well in a cage . Then there was the kangaroo with its young ones peeping out of it -- a most astonishing animal .