two o’clock
No mother would let her children brave so terrific a storm . It snowed that night and all the next morning . The second day fewer children went to school than on the first . But at two o'clock when the sun burst through the gray sky , the children swarmed the streets . Shovels and brooms began to appear , snow-balls to fly , sleigh-bells to tinkle . Rosie came dashing into the shop in the midst of this burst of excitement . `` I 've shoveled our sidewalk , '' she announced triumphantly .