four in the morning
I 'm willing to call him Boss , all right . He 's got more in his head than sand cement , too . Last night , we was coming home just before supper . He 's been on the job since four in the morning and I knew he had to get back and work half the night on office work . And I says : '' ` Boss , what will you get out of it to pay you for half killing yourself this way ? ' `` He did n't answer me for a long time , then he begun to tell me a story about how he and another fellow went through the Makon canyon and how that other fellow felt about it and how he was drowned and how he had some verses that that fellow taught him printed on his gravestone . Thought I 'd remember those lines .