7 P.M.
His mates and the casual Jims and Bills were taken too suddenly to laugh , and the laugh having been lost , as Bland Holt , the Australian actor would put it in a professional sense , the audience had time to think , with the result that the joker swung his hand down through an imaginary table and exclaimed -- ` By God ! Jimmy 'll do it . ' -LRB- Applause . -RRB- ***** So one drowsy afternoon at the time of the year when the breathless day runs on past 7 P.M. , Mrs Myers sat sewing in the bar parlour , when a clean-shaved , clean-shirted , clean-neckerchiefed , clean-moleskinned , greased-bluchered -- altogether a model or stage swagman came up , was served in the bar by the half-caste female cook , and took his way to the river-bank , where he rigged a small tent and made a model camp . A couple of hours later he sat on a stool on the verandah , smoking a clean clay pipe . Just before the sunset meal Mrs Myers asked , ` Is that trav ' ler there yet , Mary ? ' ` Yes , missus .