half past six
`` All this is rank socialism , my dear fellow . '' `` No ; rank truth . Now , to take the life of a Gaunt . He gets up summer and winter much earlier out of a bed that he can not afford time or money to keep too clean or warm , in a small room that probably has not a large enough window ; into clothes stiff with work and boots stiff with clay ; makes something hot for himself , very likely brings some of it to his wife and children ; goes out , attending to his digestion crudely and without comfort ; works with his hands and feet from half past six or seven in the morning till past five at night , except that twice he stops for an hour or so and eats simple things that he would not altogether have chosen to eat if he could have had his will . He goes home to a tea that has been got ready for him , and has a clean-up without assistance , smokes a pipe of shag , reads a newspaper perhaps two days old , and goes out again to work for his own good , in his vegetable patch , or to sit on a wooden bench in an atmosphere of beer and ` baccy . ' And so , dead tired , but not from directing other people , he drowses himself to early lying again in his doubtful bed . Is that exaggerated ? ''