3 o'clock
I am glad you will sit down and reason with me in a rational way about some of these Bible stories that take my breath away . The minister stands me off when I try to talk with him about such things , and tells me to study the parable of the Prodigal Son , and the deacons tell me to go and soak my head . There is darn little encouragement for a boy to try and figure out things . How would you like to have a thousand red headed wives come into the store this minute and tell you they wanted you to send carriages around to the house at 3 o'clock so they could go for a drive ? Or how would you like to have a hired girl come rushing in and tell you to send up six hundred doctors , because six hundred of your wives had been taken with cholera morbus ? Or -- '' `` O , do n't mention it , '' said the grocery man , with a shudder . `` I would n't take Solomon 's place , and be the natural protector of a thousand wives if anybody would give me the earth .