one o'clock
He is a great talker , and a great smoker , and he chats so skilfully , that he enjoys his pipe at the same time , and manages it so as not to interrupt his jabbering . He can smoke , talk , and row at once . He do n't smoke fast , for that puts his pipe out by consuming his tobacco ; nor row fast , for it fatigues him . '' `` Exactly , '' sais I , `` but the tongue , I suppose , having , like a clock , a locomotive power of its own , goes like one of my wooden ones for twenty-four hours without ceasing , and like one of them also when it 's e ` en amost worn-out and up in years , goes at the rate of one hundred minutes to the hour , strikes without counting the number , and gives good measure , banging away often twenty tunes at one o'clock . '' Every boat now steered for the `` Black Hawk , '' and the oracle stopped talking French to practise English . `` How you do , Sare ? how you do your wife ? ''