Two o'clock
His wife saw that he was taking his last puffs , so she said , `` Sam , can I have the bays to go over to the Henshaws ' this afternoon ? '' `` Well , '' replied Sam , `` I was going to haul wood , but I guess I can let that go . What time do you want them ? '' `` Two o'clock , '' said his wife . Sarah said that Sam brought the bays around to the front door and was as lively round her and the team as he was twenty years ago when she was a maiden and he came courting her at her father 's . Talk about the diplomacy of Bismarck , d'Israeli , and the Russian Ambassador in settling the Eastern question at the close of the Russo-Turkish war ; why there are women in Orangeville who can give them pointers on diplomacy . The bays thought that either a peddler or minister was driving them that afternoon , they made so many short calls .