about ten o'clock
`` Well , Mrs. Lathrop , to go ` way back to the beginnin ' , seems as Mrs. Macy set out last night , as I said before , to make over her carpet . Seems as she wanted to turn it all around so 's it 'd fade away under the stove an ' fray out in the corner where it do n't show . I do n't say as the idea was n't a good one -- although it 's come pretty hard on Mrs. Sweet -- but anyhow , good or no good , she dug up the tacks last night an ' ripped the widths an ' set down to sew this mornin ' . Her story is as she turned the duck out to pasture right after breakfast an ' then went to work an ' sewed away as happy as a bean until about ten o'clock . Then she felt most awful tired from the rippin ' an ' yesterday an ' all , so she thought she 'd rest a little . Seems as her legs was all done up in the carpet an ' gettin ' out was hard so she thought she 'd just lay back on the floor . Seems she lay back suddener than she really intended an ' as she hit the floor , she was _ took _ .