half past eight
You 'll have to take your book into the field as I did . After every row of corn I learned a rule of syntax or arithmetic or a fact in geography while I rested , and my thought and memory took hold of it as I plied the hoe . I do n't want you to stop the reading , but from now on you must spend half of every evening on your lessons . '' We got home at half past eight and found my aunt greatly worried . She had done the chores and been standing in her hood and shawl on the porch listening for the sound of the wagon . She had kept our suppers warm but I was the only hungry one . As I was going to bed the Senator called me to him and said : `` I shall be gone when you are up in the morning .