eleven o'clock
`` Do n't mind my cousin , '' Alex tells him . `` Outside of a tendency to the measles , he 's the worst thing we got in our family ! We 'll take up the financial end of this later . '' Bright and early the next mornin ' , or eleven o'clock to be exact , Alex invites me to go with him so 's I can watch how he would go about seein ' the president of the Brown-Calder Company and sellin ' him the Simmons patent collar button . As they is always a chance that Alex will fall down , I went along . We had no trouble at all landin ' outside the president 's office , but once we got there it was different . `` Is Mister Calder in ? ''