nine o'clock
Dr. Maverick offered three prizes , -- one for the best loaf of bread , one for the best plain cake , and a third for the nicest and cheapest invalid broth . The room was full , and they had a very gay time . Indeed , it seemed as if half Yerbury turned out , either from honor or curiosity . At nine o'clock they ran short of provision , when they honorably decided to refund the money for all tickets offered after that , and explain to new-comers the state of affairs . But some of the young men proposed a dance ; and they went on for the next two hours in hearty , healthy jollity . Out of ten loaves of bread offered , Mary Moran took the prize . That for the cake was awarded to quite a new scholar ; while Kitty Miles carried off that for broth , three doctors concurring in the decision .