three o'clock
She used to go out on de plantation an ' boss things like a man . Arter I war married , I had a baby . It war de dearest , cutest little thing you eber did see ; but , pore thing , it got sick and died . It died ` bout three o'clock ; and in de mornin ' , Katie , habbin her cows to milk , lef her dead baby in de cabin . When she com 'd back from milkin ' her thirty cows , an ' went to look for her pore little baby , some one had been to her cabin an ' took 'd de pore chile away an ' put it in de groun ' . Pore Katie , she did n't eben hab a chance to kiss her baby ` fore it war buried . Ole Gundover 's wife has been dead thirty years , an ' she did n't die a day too soon .