About four o'clock
`` You see , Mah ` sr Harry , '' he said , `` I lib right on de outside edge ob you ' pa 's woods , and I kin go ober dar jist as easy as nuffin , early every mornin ' , and see dat dem boys does dere work , and do n't chop down de wrong trees . Mind now , I tell ye , you all will make a pile o ' money ef ye jist hire me to obersee dem boys . '' For some time Harry resisted his entreaties , but at last , principally on account of Kate 's argument that the old man ought to be encouraged in making something toward his living , if he were able and willing to do so , Harry hired him on his own terms , which were ten cents a day . About four o'clock every afternoon during his engagement , Uncle Braddock made his appearance in the village , to demand his ten cents . When Harry remonstrated with him on his quitting work so early , he said : `` Why , you see , Mah ` sr Harry , it 's a long way from dem woods here , and I got to go all de way back home agin ; and it gits dark mighty early dese short days . '' In about a week the old man came to Hurry and declared that he must throw up his engagement . `` What 's the matter ? ''