About six o'clock in the afternoon
Then he dallied so with his chores that his mother had to call him twice . At last he could find no more excuses between him and the strange company . He went in with much fear and some invisible trembling . About six o'clock in the afternoon , Mildred Brown went down through the fields to the lower pasture . She wore a gingham apron which covered her from neck to high-topped boots . She carried in one hand an easel and stool and in the other hand a box of colors . Mildred came each day to a particular spot in this lower pasture and set up her easel and stool in the shade of a black willow bush to paint a particular scene .