ten o'clock
Before I die I want you to confess to me what that stuff is that I have been eating , and I can die in peace ! ' `` I told him that he had wanted a light breakfast , and I though there was nothing quite so light as cork , and that he was full clear to the muzzle with pulverized cork , and he could n't sink any more when he took a bath . Dad turned pale and we went out in the office and found that all the people who sat at our table , and ate breakfast food were in the hands of doctors , and dad went in the room with them , and each had a doctor , and how they got it out of them I do n't know , as I was busy organizing a strike among the bell boys . I told them they could double their wages by striking at exactly at ten o'clock , when all the boarders wanted cocktails sent to their rooms . -LSB- Illustration : Dad Among the Cowboys . -RSB- `` They struck all right , and the breakfast food people had all got pumped out , and then it came my turn . Dad gave me a licking , the boarders kicked at me , the landlord ordered me out of the house , and the striking bell boys who had their places filled in ten minutes , chased me all over town , and when I got back to the hotel dad had bought tickets to San Antonio , because the doctor told him to get out on the prairies and take horseback exercise to shake the pulverized cork and the monkey-wrench out of his system , and everybody threw stones at the buss that we rode to the depot in .