four o'clock
Jabez , intended to give Barbie the full penalty ; none o ' your squires for him , nothin ' but Friar Tuck , who was one o ' these here Episcolopian preachers what sport a full regalia an ' a book o ' tactics calculated to meet any complication a human bein ' is apt to veer into . Some say they 're just Roman Catholics , gone Republican , an ' some say that they 're the ones who started the first strike -- I do n't know much about it myself . He had n't arrived by seven o'clock , but we did n't worry none ; he might have had to come fifty miles , an ' he never had any time to waste . We 'd had a sort o ' light supper at four o'clock , an ' it was intended to have the weddin ' feast after the performance was finished . It was just eight o'clock when Friar Tuck swung off his pony an ' as many of the crowd as could gathered in the big dinin ' room an ' waited for the words to be said . Spidier Kelley came an ' told me that he had locked the woman in the office , an ' that she was behavin ' herself reasonable , so I knew ` at the finish was n't far off . The tables an ' chairs had been taken out , the intention bein ' to dance in the store-room after the ceremony , an ' while the dancin ' was goin ' on to set the banquet in the dinin ' room .