half past five
Last week my wife went over to Harmon 's and Mis ' Harmon said she was goin ' to make some molasses candy that mornin ' . Well , my wife hurried home , put on her molasses , made her candy , cooled it and worked it , and took some over to treat Mis ' Harmon , who was jest gittin ' her kittle out from under the sink ! '' The Careys laughed heartily at this evidence of Mrs. Popham 's celerity , while Osh , as pleased as possible , gave one dab with his paste brush and went on : -- `` Maria 's blood was up one while , 'cause Mis ' Bill Harmon always contrives to git her wash out the earliest of a Monday morning . Yesterday Maria got up ` bout daybreak -LRB- I allers tell her if she was real forehanded she 'd eat her breakfast overnight -RRB- , and by half past five she hed her clothes in the boiler . Jest as she was lookin ' out the kitchen winder for signs o ' Mis ' Bill Harmon , she seen her start for her side door with a big basket . Maria was so mad then that she vowed she would n't be beat , so she dug for the bedroom and slat some clean sheets and piller cases out of a bureau drawer , run into the yard , and I 'm blamed if she did n't get 'em over the line afore Mis ' Harmon found her clothespins ! '' Good old Osh !