about midnight
Bottles and kegs from the White Fish and money to pay for all , too ! Every one welcome and free to say his say and drink his fill . I got drunk myself ! Long about midnight Big Hornby he said as how he once licked Uncle Michael , and Dad he cried back that to blacken a man 's name when he was too dead to stand up for it was a dirty trick , and so it was ! Then it was forth and back for a time , with compliments and what not , and if you please just as Dad sent a bit of a stool at Big Hornby , who should come in at the door but Mr. Schoolmaster , him as had no invite and was not wanted ! The stool took him full on the arm and broke it -- the arm -- and folks took sides , and some one , after a bit , got Dad from under the pile and tried to make him beg pardon ! Beg pardon at his own wake in his own home , and Schoolmaster taking chances coming when he was not invited !