one o'clock
Just look at this piece of ground -- four crops a year , an ' every inch of soil workin ' over time . Why , back in town there , there 's single acres that earns more than fifty of ours in the old days . The Porchugeeze is natural-born farmers , that 's all , an ' we do n't know nothin ' about farmin ' an ' never did . '' Saxon talked with the lineman , following him about , till one o'clock , when he looked at his watch , said good bye , and returned to his task of putting in a telephone for the latest immigrant from the Azores . When in town , Saxon carried her oilcloth-wrapped telescope in her hand ; but it was so arranged with loops , that , once on the road , she could thrust her arms through the loops and carry it on her back . When she did this , the tiny ukulele case was shifted so that it hung under her left arm . A mile on from the lineman , they stopped where a small creek , fringed with brush , crossed the county road .