nearly eight o'clock
it will come back , double , the day I catch the man who squeezed all the comfort out of my life ! '' He dashed away with a strange cry . Bart , half decided that he was demented , watched him disappear in the direction of a cheap eating house just beyond the tracks , and started homewards more or less sobered and thoughtful over the peculiar incident . It was nearly eight o'clock when Bart got through with his supper , did his house chores , mended a broken toy pistol for one junior brother , made up a list of purchases of torpedoes , baby-crackers and punk for the other , and helped his sisters in various ways . Bart was soon in the midst of the fray . Every live boy in Pleasantville was in evidence about the village pleasure grounds , the common and the hill . Group after group greeted Bart with excited exclamations .