eleven o'clock
Some of this advice Dickey received in a kindly spirit , assuring his friends of his determination never to play a part again that required any such uncomfortable costume ; but to others he displayed considerable ill-feeling , and was so unwise as to be angry , when he should have remembered that as the public 's servant , in the capacity of an actor , he was obliged to hear their criticisms . But the partners were made happy by knowing that , in the majority of individual cases they heard of , their performance had given satisfaction , and that if they could only get a new play , since they had exhausted all of Shakespeare 's in one evening , they might feel assured of considerable patronage again . Having been told of this at an early hour in the morning , Mopsey set about the task of writing , or thinking of , another play immediately ; and it was said by those who watched him closely that he drove away at least four customers that forenoon by his seeming discourtesy , while he was trying to decide how a new play could be arranged . At eleven o'clock , agreeably to the appointment made by Ben , all the partners , except Paul , met at Mrs. Green 's fruit-stand , wondering not a little as to why they had been summoned . Ben was there , almost bursting with importance ; and when he found that all , including Mrs. Green and Nelly , were ready to listen to him , he said , as if he were again on the stage : `` I 've got a big plan , an ' I hope you 'll all think jest the same about it that I do . You know how bad Polly feels 'cause he ca n't git back to his folks , for you see how he moped round yesterday when we was all feelin ' so good . Now , I jest come from a place where they sell railroad tickets , an ' I found out that a little feller like him can get to Chicager for fourteen dollars . ''