two A.M.
In the country it 's different . Take a busy day at Gayley 's , for instance . It usually opens about three A.M. , when Gayley crawls out of bed in response to a cataract of woe over the telephone and goes out nine miles hither or yon to haul in some foundered brother . Gayley has a soft heart and is always going out over the country at night to reason with some erring engine ; but since last April first , when he traveled six miles at two A.M. in response to a call and found a toy automobile lying bottom-side up in the road , he has become suspicious and embittered , and has raised his prices . At six A.M. Worley Gates , who farms eight miles south , comes in to catch an early train and delivers the first bulletin . The roads to the south are drying fast , but he went down the clay hill sidewise and had to go through the bottom on low . At seven , Wimble Horn and Colonel Ackley and Sim Bone drop in while waiting for breakfast .