half past eight
`` I shall be here for a number of weeks , '' he said , `` and I shall want to see you often . Maybe we 'll go hunting some Saturday . '' We bade him good morning and he went on with his wheelbarrow , which was loaded , I remember , with stout sacks of meal and flour . We went to the school at half past eight . What a thrilling place it was with its seventy-eight children and its three rooms . How noisy they were as they waited in the school yard for the bell to ring ! I stood by the door-side looking very foolish , I dare say , for I knew not what to do with myself .