about four o'clock
` Hsssh ! Sir ! ' But through the body of the court had passed a murmur , of challenge , as it were , from one aisle to the other . The witness , a square man with a red face , grey hair , whiskers , and moustache , and lively excitable dark eyes , watering with anxiety , spoke in a fast soft voice : ` Tuesday afternoon , your Worships , it might be about four o'clock , I was passin ' up the village , an ' I saw the rector at his gate , with a loaf in ` is ` and . ' ` Show us how . ' The witness held his black hat to his side , with the rounded top outwards . ` Was the loaf clean or dirty ? '