about two o'clock
`` Any rate , it 's in for a penny , in for a pound , wid me . '' When supper was over , they resumed their drinking , sang songs , and told anecdotes with great glee and hilarity . Phelim and Peggy danced jigs and reels , whilst Appleton sang for them , and the bottle also did its duty . On separating about two o'clock , there was not a sober man among them but Appleton . He declined drinking , and was backed in his abstemiousness by Phelim , who knew that sobriety on the part of Sam would leave himself more liquor . Phelim , therefore , drank for them both , and that to such excess , that Larry , by Appleton 's advice , left him at his father 's in consequence of his inability to proceed homewards . It was not , however , without serious trouble that Appleton could get Phelim and the father separated ; and when he did , Larry 's grief was bitter in the extreme .