about ten o'clock
says I. `` Ask Auntie . '' If the next day had n't been Sunday , I could have sneaked off to town and dodged the little talk Auntie insists on givin ' about the folly of amateurs tacklin ' jobs they know nothing about . As it is I has to stick around and take the gaff . Then about ten o'clock Basil Pyne has to show up and reopen the subject . `` Oh , by the way , '' says he , `` how are the turkeys this morning ? Are they still practicing that wonderful duck walk you were telling me about ? '' Auntie has just fixed an accusin ' eye on me , and I was wonderin ' if it would be any sin to take Basil out back somewhere and choke him , when in rushes old Leon with a wild look on his face .