Six o'clock in the morning
`` What day is Reading Market ? '' `` Tuesdays and Saturdays , sir . '' `` And what time does the mail go by ? '' `` Six o'clock in the morning , sir , at the cross-roads . '' `` And they 're three miles off , across the fields ? '' `` Thereabouts , sir . I reckons it about a forty minutes ' stretch , and no time lost . ''