six o'clock
`` My dove , a bit of fish ? '' We both had our share to-day , and I never saw a man more polite than Mr Handycock . He joked with his wife , asked me to drink wine with him two or three times , talked about my grandfather ; and , in short , we had a very pleasant evening . The next morning all my clothes came home , but Mr Handycock , who still continued in good humour , said that he would not allow me to travel by night , that I should sleep there and set off the next morning ; which I did at six o'clock , and before eight I had arrived at the Elephant and Castle , where we stopped for a quarter of an hour . I was looking at the painting representing this animal with a castle on its back ; and assuming that of Alnwick , which I had seen , as a fair estimate of the size and weight of that which he carried , was attempting to enlarge my ideas so as to comprehend the stupendous bulk of the elephant , when I observed a crowd assembled at the corner ; and asking a gentleman who sat by me in a plaid cloak , whether there was not something very uncommon to attract so many people , he replied , `` Not very , for it is only a drunken sailor . '' I rose from my seat , which was on the hinder part of the coach , that I might see him , for it was a new sight to me , and excited my curiosity , when to my astonishment , he staggered from the crowd , and swore that he 'd go to Portsmouth . He climbed up by the wheel of the coach , and sat down by me .