eleven o'clock
Indeed , it appears in Wright 's Dictionary of Provincial English in precisely the sense it has in the text . -RSB- The Spring-in-rock , or , as it was sometimes , by a curious perversion , called , the `` rock-in-spring , '' was a spring running out of a cave-like fissure in a high limestone cliff . Here the old man sheltered himself on that dreary Christmas evening , until Bud brought his roan colt to the top of the cliff above , and he and Ralph helped the old man up the cliff and into the saddle . Ralph went back to bed , but Bud , who was only too eager to put in his best licks , walked by the side of old John Pearson the six miles over to Buckeye Run , and at last , after eleven o'clock , he deposited him in a hollow sycamore by the road , there to wait the coming of the mail-wagon that would carry him into Jackson County . `` Good-by , '' said the basket-maker , as Bud mounted the colt to return . `` Ef I 'm wanted jest send me word , and I 'll make a forrard movement any time . I do n't like this ` ere thing of running off in the night-time .