six o'clock
They got another boat , and came to us in a great passion , swearing that if we did not pay them five shillings each for the day 's work we had hindered them of , and pay for the oar we had lost , they would take us before a justice of the peace and have us sent to prison . William Thompson had no money in his pocket , but I had the five shillings my Aunt Eleanor had given me the day before at Mr. Black 's to buy the _ Pantheon _ ; that they took , but not being enough to satisfy their demand , they also took away my satchel with all my school books , telling me where they lived , and that they would restore it safe as soon as I brought them the rest of the money . The other boys were so poor and so ragged , the men did not ask anything of them . ` It was near six o'clock when we got on shore , about the time I knew I should be expected home from school . William Thompson went down on his knees to beg I would not tell what had happened , promising at the same time to bring the money to release my books the next morning . Indeed I was so much ashamed of having played truant thus , that I was glad enough to conceal it . The boy whose hat I had knocked off into the river would not leave me till he had got mine , so I was forced to slip in at the garden-gate and steal up the back stairs to my own room , that I might not be seen to come home without my hat .