ten o'clock
`` Ever since the old boss got so he could n't look after his business with his own eyes , things has been goin ' to blazes round this sawmill , but they ai n't a-goin ' no more . How do I know ? Well , I 'll tell you . All this forenoon I kept my eye on the office door -- I can see it through a mill winder ; an ' I 'm tellin ' you the old boss did n't show up till ten o'clock , which the old man ai n't never been a ten o'clock business man at no time . Do n't that prove the boy 's took his place ? '' Confused murmurs of affirmation and negation ran up and down the long table . Dan tapped with his knife again .