seven o'clock
And why should he trouble to do this , when the other little boy , Marmaduke , who had nothing whatever the matter with _ his _ leg , was always ambitious to use this crutch , or scrutch . He was the Dionysos of the metaphor . However , the crutch was not in question when Dave first set eyes on Granny Marrable . It was at half-past seven o'clock on a cold morning , when the last swallow had departed , and the skylarks were flagging , and the tragedy of the ash-leaves was close at hand , that Dave awoke reluctantly from a remote dream-world with Dolly in it , and Uncle Mo , and Aunt M'riar , and Mrs. Picture upstairs , to hear a voice , that at first seemed Mrs. Picture 's in the dream , saying : `` Well , my little gentleman , you _ do _ sleep sound ! '' But it was n't Mrs. Prichard 's , or Picture 's , voice ; it was Granny Marrable 's . For all her eighty years , she had walked from Costrell 's farm , her great-grandson 's birthplace , three miles off , or thereabouts ; and had arrived at her own door , ten minutes since , quite fresh after an hour 's walk . She was that sort of old woman .