six
o'clock
his mind reverted to the Beano , and he began to hum the tunes of some of the songs that had been sung . He hummed the tune of ` He 's a jolly good fellow ' , and he could not get the tune out of his mind : it kept buzzing in his head . He wondered what time it was ? It could not be very far off eight now , to judge by the amount of work he had done since six o'clock . He had rubbed down and stopped all the woodwork and painted the window . A jolly good two hours ' work ! He was only getting sixpence-halfpenny an hour and if he had n't earned a bob he had n't earned nothing !