eight o'clock
Whilst poison-fruits may nourish thee . '' SHAGBAG 'S Advice to Beginners . THIS is how it all happened . They met at the canteen on Monday morning at eight o'clock -- Jim Gubo , the policeman , and Kalaza , who had just been released from the convict station where , for five long years , he had been expiating a particularly cruel assault with violence upon a woman . ` Ntsoba , the fat Fingo barman , leant lazily over the counter , but as the regular customers for the morning `` nip '' had all departed , and no one else had yet come , he went outside and sat in the sunshine , smoking his oily pipe with thorough enjoyment . He did not in the least mind leaving Jim Gubo in the canteen , because Jim and he had long since come to an understanding , and this with the full approval of the proprietor . Jim was , so to say , free of the house , and got his daily number of tots of poisonous `` dop '' brandy measured out in the thick glass tumbler , the massive exterior of which was quite out of proportion to the comparatively limited interior space .