ten o'clock
The goggles were of portentous size , and we boys used to clap and cheer when she made her appearance . As an article of diet , perhaps , fried pies could hardly be commended for invalids ; but to a boy who had been working hard , or racing about for hours in the fresh air out of doors , they were simply delicious and went exactly to the right spot . Few articles of food are more appetizing to the eye than the rich doughnut brown of a fine fried pie . That forenoon we coaxed Theodora and Ellen to fry a batch of three dozen , and two `` Jonahs ; '' and the girls , with some misgivings as to what Gram would say to them for making such inroads on `` pie timber , '' set about it by ten o'clock . Be it said , however , that `` closeness '' in the matter of daily food was not one of Gram 's faults . She always laid in a large supply of `` pie timber '' and was not much concerned for fear of a shortage . They filled half a dozen with mince-meat , half a dozen with stewed gooseberry , and then half a dozen each , of crab apple jelly , plum , peach and blackberry .