quarter to eight
Goin ' sailin ' away into darklin ' space with that ball of enchanted kyarpet-rags , -- that ai n't the sooper-nacheral part at all ! Shore ! ondoubted it 's some hard to do as a feat , but still thar 's other feachers which from the standp ` int of the marvellous overpowers it like four kings an ' a ace . That wonder is this : It 's quarter to eight when the wizard takes his flight by means of the kyarpet-rags . Gents , at eight o'clock sharp the same evenin ' he walks on the stage an ' gives a show at St. Looey , hundreds of miles away . ' '' The Luck of Hardrobe . `` Which I tells this yere narrative first , back in one of them good old Red Light evenin 's when it 's my turn to talk . ''