about ten o'clock
On the Monday they were public property . The thing had happened after this fashion . At the conclusion of the day 's cricket , all those who had been playing in the four elevens which the school put into the field against the old boys , together with the school choir , were entertained by the headmaster to supper in the Great Hall . The banquet , lengthened by speeches , songs , and recitations which the reciters imagined to be songs , lasted , as a rule , till about ten o'clock , when the revellers were supposed to go back to their houses by the nearest route , and turn in . This was the official programme . The school usually performed it with certain modifications and improvements . About midway between Wrykyn , the school , and Wrykyn , the town , there stands on an island in the centre of the road a solitary lamp-post .