about half past seven o'clock
`` Well , I 'm not either , '' protested Reddy . `` I knew he was only trying to scare me . '' After the boys had carried the apples up to the house Mother Brown looked them over and exclaimed : `` They 're just what I want , such fine strong stems . '' At about half past seven o'clock that night the boys who had been invited to the party began to arrive at the Brown 's home where they were met at the door by a figure in white . It had queer rabbit ears , made from tying up the corners of a pillow slip that had been placed over its head . The eyes were holes cut in the slip . The large hall was lighted by many candles set in hollowed-out pumpkins which had queer grinning faces cut in them .