about four o'clock in the afternoon
I had intended to take him indoors and wash him , for he was in a wretched condition . Finally I put him on Dole 's wheelbarrow , which I found by the door of the shed , and wheeled him to the nearest neighbors , the Frosts , who lived about a quarter of a mile away . Mrs. Frost had long been indignant as to the way the Doles were treating the boy ; she gladly took him in and cared for him , while I hurried on with the eyestone . I reached home about four o'clock in the afternoon , and the old Squire thought that , in view of my errand , I had been gone an unreasonably long time . Halstead 's eye was so much inflamed that we had no little trouble in getting the eyestone under the lid . Finally , however , the old Squire , with Addison 's help , slipped it in . Halstead cried out , but the old Squire made him keep his eye closed ; then the old gentleman bandaged it , and made him lie down .