half past five
`` You are , are you ? '' says the cook , for it was the cook . `` Well , then , come along . It 's half past five , and time to go to work . '' He took us to the kitchen and set us to work . First we both peeled potatoes . Then he set us doin ' all sorts of things , carryin ' dishes , bringin ' his terbaker , and I had to carry water ; and finally he made me wipe dishes which a girl was washin ' .