three o'clock
I ca n't have everything in the house smashed . '' `` We 'll compromise on Jack 's going to the attic . I have no desire to play football , '' returned Jarley ; and this was the plan agreed upon . It would have been a good plan if Jarley had expended some of his inventive genius upon some such game as football solitaire , and instructed Jack therein beforehand ; but this he had not done , and the result was that at three o'clock Jarley found himself in the attic involved in a furious game , in which he represented variously Harvard , the goal , the goal-posts , the referee , and acting with too great frequency as understudy for the ball . What he was not , Jack was , and the worst part of it was that there was no tiring Jack . The longer he played , the better he liked it . The oftener Jarley 's shins received kicks intended for the football , the louder he laughed .