three o'clock
You were tiger ` unting and brought him from the Sunderbunds about four years ago ; it was n't the gentleman , of course not ! '' `` But weally , '' pleaded Leonie with the tears very near , `` weally I 've -- I 've dweamed lots about him , and -- and -- and -- '' `` Take her away , Sir -- she makes me see red she does . No thank you . Sir -- very much obliged , but it 's part of my duty to see that people _ do n't _ climb the barrier , and I kind of failed -- p ` raps the little girl what came and -- '' They were outside by this time and the centre of an interested admiring crowd ; it is only bleeding meat at three o'clock as a rule which can rouse the inhabitants of the lion house from their prison apathy . Taking the dirty little paw Cuxson , crumpling up a note , put it into the dirty little palm and closed the fingers tightly over it . Whereupon Gertrude Ellen blushed furiously , and went to her mother with her clenched fist behind her back , where she kept it stiffly until tea-time , when she held out the bit of paper without a word , to the tune of `` Lawks a mercy me ! '' from her mother , who immediately ordered more buns on the strength of it .