a quarter to nine
The telephone man came to fix the wires that afternoon , and when Daddy Horton came home to dinner he said that much of the snow had been cleared away in the streets . The next morning Sunny Boy started off to school and Daddy walked with him up to the steps , as he had done the snowy morning . It was very cold , but all the walks were clear and the great high walls of snow that had been piled up along the pavements made fine places for jumping boys . Sunny Boy tried several himself , and Daddy had to remind him that it was a quarter to nine , or he might have been late for school . Every one talked about the blizzard in school . All the children wanted to hear from those who had been lost , and Sunny Boy and Jimmie and Perry and Carleton and the three little girls were kept busy answering questions . Miss May and Miss Davis asked questions , too , and even when they did get at their lessons they read snow stories and drew sleighs and horses and snow forts on the blackboard .