one o'clock
No . Bring up _ first _ all the distant and most uncertain voters -- the timid , the feeble , the wavering ; secure _ them _ early while you have time and opportunity . Again , for the first few hours poll languidly ; it _ may _ render the enemy over-easy . You may perhaps make a sham _ rush _ of about twenty or thirty between twelve and one o'clock , to give them the idea that you are doing your very best . Then fall off , poll a man now and then only , and see what _ they _ will do , how _ they _ are playing off their men . If you can hang back till late in the day , then direct , very secretly and cautiously , the bribery oath and the questions to be put to each of the enemy 's men as they come up ; and , while you are thus picking them off , pour in your own voters before the opposite party is aware of your game , and the hour for closing the poll _ may _ perhaps arrive while some dozen or so of their men are unpolled . But above all , gentlemen , '' said Crafty , `` every one to his own work only .