twelve o'clock
oh fie ! No , Jacky , Heaven forbid I should do the man any harm ; but when I think of what he has brought on my head , and then to skulk and leave me in my sore strait and trouble , me that never gave him ill language as most masters would ; and then , Jacky , do you remember when he was sick how kind you and I were to him -- and now to leave us . There , I must go into the house , and you come and call me out when that man is off the premises -- not before . '' At twelve o'clock selfish Abner started to walk thirty miles to Mr. Meredith 's . Smarting under the sense of his contemptibleness and of the injury he was doing his kind , poor master , he shook his fist at the house and told Jacky he hoped the scab would rot the flock , and that done fall upon the bipeds , on his own black hide in particular . Jacky only answered with his eye . When the man was gone he called George .