five o'clock
`` So I see , '' Twinkletoes replied . `` But how about your early birds ? Hello ! Your _ moon 's whiskers _ say that it 's after five o'clock , and that 's not early for birds . Now that I think of it , I do n't believe they get up till later -- at least in December . '' Whitey was tired -- this was the `` last straw . '' '' _ Early _ birds ! ''