about eight o'clock
As they went up the stairs he asked : `` Did you make the train ? '' `` Caught the caboose just as she was swinging out . They dumped me out in the freight yards , and I did n't get home till ` most five o'clock . I went right to bed , and along about eight o'clock Brown came in and woke me up . He was feeling pretty nervous . ` Say , Charlie , ' he said , ` ai n't it time for you to be starting ? ' ` Where to ? '