two o'clock P.M.
A few shillings were indeed well expended in brightening those familiar eyes : and then there were the children with me ... . Besides , there really did seem to be an unusually nice assortment of things , and the man was very intelligent -LRB- in reference to his wares -RRB- : ... . Well , well ! It was two o'clock P.M. when we went in at one end of that glittering avenue of drums , dolls , trumpets , accordions , workboxes , and what not ; but what o'clock it was when I came out at the other end , with a shilling and some coppers in my pocket , and was cheered , I ca n't say , though I should like to have been able to be accurate about the time , because of what followed . `` I thought the best thing I could do was to get out of the fair at once , so I went up the village and struck off across some fields into a little wood that lay near . -LRB- A favourite walk in old times . -RRB- As I turned out of the booth , my foot struck against one of the yellow sticks of the climbing monkeys .