five in the morning
But it is a revelation , on the other hand . I shall be able to appreciate the lives of the working people hereafter . I did not dream that work was so terrible a thing . From half-past five in the morning till ten o'clock at night I am everybody 's slave , with not one moment to myself , except such as I can steal near the end of the second dog-watch . Let me pause for a minute to look out over the sea sparkling in the sun , or to gaze at a sailor going aloft to the gaff-topsails , or running out the bowsprit , and I am sure to hear the hateful voice , ``' Ere , you , ' Ump , no sodgerin ' . I 've got my peepers on yer . '' There are signs of rampant bad temper in the steerage , and the gossip is going around that Smoke and Henderson have had a fight .