two o'clock
`` Not now , '' answered Grandmother , `` because it 's too near dinner time . Wait till you have your dinner and a little rest of half an hour . Then you can start and pick all afternoon . '' By two o'clock the girls had hunted up the berry baskets Grandmother told them to find in the attic -LRB- cunning little baskets with long , curving handles they were , too -RRB- and , tying on their biggest sun hats , they started out through the garden path . They crossed the field , climbed the fence into the woods and turned down the wagon road as Grandmother had directed them . And sure enough , there were the berry bushes just as she had said . Bushes that were fairly loaded with shining blackberries that glistened in the afternoon sunshine .