five o'clock
After raisin ' them for six years , it was hard -- year of the frozen wheat , too -- oh , yes , ` tai n't all easy . Now , there 's old Bruce Simpson , back there at Pelican Lake . It would just do you good to be there of a mornin . ' He has four boys and four girls , and just at the clip of five o'clock them lads jump out of bed -- the eight feet hit the floor at the same minute and come leppin ' down the stairs four abreast , each fellow with a lantern , and get out to the stable and feed up . The four girls are just the same -- fine , smart , turkey-faced girls they are , with an arm like a stove-pipe . You 'll be all right with the help you 've got -- you 'll have nearly enough to run a threshin ' mill . Any girls ? ''