five in the morning
`` I 'll tell you why I 'm not mending ' stockings , and why Susan has had to leave off mending stockings in order to look after me . Susan and I worked in a mill when she was ten and I was eleven . We were ` tenters . ' We used to get up at four or five in the morning and help with the housework , and then put on our clogs and shawls and be at the mill at six . We worked till twelve , and then in the afternoon we went to school . The next day we went to school in the morning and to the mill in the afternoon . When we were thirteen we left school altogether , and worked twelve hours a day in the mill .