nearly ten o'clock
Even Tony Brink , the blacksmith 's ` prentice , fell into the habits of industry , but with an absent-mindedness that got him kicked through a partition in the smithy when he attempted to shoe the fetlock of Mr. Martin 's colt instead of its hoof . The Crow family took on a new dignity . Anderson gave fifty dollars to the Foreign Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Church , claiming that a foreign education had done so much for his ward ; and Mrs. Crow succeeded in holding two big afternoon teas before Rosalie could apply the check rein . One night Anderson sat up until nearly ten o'clock -- an unheard-of proceeding for him . Rosalie , with the elder Crow girls , Edna and Susie , had gone to protracted meeting with a party of young men and women . The younger boys and girls were in bed , and Mrs. Crow was yawning prodigiously . She never retired until Anderson was ready to do likewise .