nearly ten o'clock
`` Some of them bush girls is regular tomboys , '' he said to me solemnly one day . `` Some of them is too cheeky altogether . I remember once I was stoppin ' at a place -- they was sort of relations o ' mine -- an ' they put me to sleep in a room off the verander , where there was a glass door an ' no blinds . An ' the first mornin ' the girls -- they was sort o ' cousins o ' mine -- they come gigglin ' and foolin ' round outside the door on the verander , an ' kep ' me in bed till nearly ten o'clock . I had to put me trowsis on under the bed-clothes in the end . But I got back on 'em the next night , '' he reflected . `` How did you do that , Bob ? ''