half past one o'clock
Shall I go home and fetch it ? ' '' ` No , you need n't ' , crossly . ` By the time you got here with it you would have to go right back to get supper . It is half past one o'clock now , and I have been at work an hour . ' '' ` But you were going to work all day , were n't you ? ' He had scarcely made an impression on that tundra , and not a single nugget had we seen . `` With that he planted a few more good , hard jabs into the thicket of moss , vines and leaves , trying to get the hole four feet square anyway , after my rather uncalled for taunt about its size .