five o’clock
I told you then that I could not afford to buy such things for you ; but now that you can earn halfpence for yourselves , children , it is fair should taste a ripe plum and bit of gingerbread for once and a way in your lives . '' `` We 'll bring some of the gingerbread home to her , sha n't we , brother ? '' whispered little Anne . The morning came ; but no carriages were heard , though Paul and his sister had risen at five o'clock , that they might be sure to be ready for early travellers . Paul kept his scotcher poised upon his shoulder , and watched eagerly at his station at the bottom of the hill . He did not wait long before a carriage came . He followed it up the hill ; and the instant the postillion called to him , and bid him stop the wheels , he put his scotcher behind them , and found that it answered the purpose perfectly well .