twelve o'clock
`` You 'd better get somebody else . '' `` Ah -- that 's it . The Wild Dog sent word he 'd send over another feller , named Dave Branham , who has been practising with him , who 's just as good , he says , as he is . I 'm looking for him at twelve o'clock , an ' I 'm goin ' to take him down an ' see what he can do on that black horse o ' mine . But if he 's no good , I lose five hundred , all right , '' and he sloped away to his duties . For it was the Hon. Sam who was master of ceremonies that day . He was due now to read the Declaration of Independence in a poplar grove to all who would listen ; he was to act as umpire at the championship base-ball game in the afternoon , and he was to give the `` Charge '' to the assembled knights before the tournament .