one o'clock
Uncle Job dropped in about dusk , and went up with my father to the fold for an hour or two . Then he came home , had a drop to drink from the tub of sperrits that the smugglers kept us in for housing their liquor when they 'd made a run , and for burning 'em off when there was danger . After that he stretched himself out on the settle to sleep . I went to bed : at one o'clock father came home , and waking me to go and take his place , according to custom , went to bed himself . On my way out of the house I passed Uncle Job on the settle . He opened his eyes , and upon my telling him where I was going he said it was a shame that such a youngster as I should go up there all alone ; and when he had fastened up his stock and waist-belt he set off along with me , taking a drop from the sperrit-tub in a little flat bottle that stood in the corner-cupboard . ` By and by we drew up to the fold , saw that all was right , and then , to keep ourselves warm , curled up in a heap of straw that lay inside the thatched hurdles we had set up to break the stroke of the wind when there was any .