About eight o'clock
`` Then , when I cackle , Tiktok will know it is time to waken you . '' `` Do you lay your egg very early ? '' asked Dorothy . `` About eight o'clock , '' said Billina . `` And everybody ought to be up by that time , I 'm sure . '' -LSB- Illustration -RSB- Dorothy Opens the Dinner Pail -LSB- Illustration -RSB- `` Now Tiktok , '' said Dorothy , `` the first thing to be done is to find a way for us to escape from these rocks . The Wheelers are down below , you know , and threaten to kill us . ''