six o'clock
`` You seen a new bookkeeper , mebbe , but you did n't see Bryce . He aint no such hog for labour as his daddy before him , I 'm tellin ' you . Not that there 's a lazy bone in his body , for there ai n't , but because that there boy 's got too much sense to come bollin ' down to work at seven o'clock the very first mornin ' he 's back from Yurrup . '' `` I 'm layin ' you ten to one I seen him , '' Dan replied defiantly , `` an ' what 's more , I 'll bet a good cigar -- a ten-center straight -- the boy do n't leave till six o'clock to-night . '' `` You 're on , '' answered the chief engineer . `` Them 's lumberjack hours , man . From seven till six means work -- an ' only fools an ' hosses keeps them hours . ''