three o'clock
After a time the fire , built of kerosene and pitchy jack pine , would get so hot that in self-defense he would arise and dress . Then he would breakfast leisurely . Thus he incurred the enmity of the cook and cookee . Those individuals have to prepare food three times a day for a half hundred heavy eaters ; besides which , on sleigh-haul , they are supposed to serve a breakfast at three o'clock for the loaders and a variety of lunches up to midnight for the sprinkler men . As a consequence , they resent infractions of the little system they may have been able to introduce . Now the business of a foreman is to be up as soon as anybody . He does none of the work himself , but he must see that somebody else does it , and does it well .