four in the morning
Kate evidently was going to talk , for she continued : `` You see my father is land mad , and son crazy . He thinks a BOY of all the importance in the world ; a GIRL of none whatever . He has the biggest family of any one we know . From birth each girl is worked like a man , or a slave , from four in the morning until nine at night . Each boy is worked exactly the same way ; the difference lies in the fact that the girls get plain food and plainer clothes out of it ; the boys each get two hundred acres of land , buildings and stock , that the girls have been worked to the limit to help pay for ; they get nothing personally , worth mentioning . I think I have two hundred acres of land on the brain , and I think this is the explanation of it . It 's a pre-natal influence at our house ; while we nurse , eat , sleep , and above all , WORK it , afterward . ''