six o'clock
While I was a-talkin ' I see a chunker-boat with the very coal on it round into the dock with a tug ; an ' I ran to the string-piece and catched the line , and has her fast to a spile before the tug lost head-way . Then I started for home on the run , to get me derricks and stuff . I got home , hooked up by twelve o'clock last night , an ' before daylight I had me rig up an ' the fall set and the buckets over her hatches . At six o'clock this mornin ' I took the teams and was a-runnin ' the coal out of the chunker , when down comes Mr. -- Daniel -- McGaw with a gang and his big derrick on a cart . '' She repeated this in a mocking tone , swinging her big shoulders exactly as her rival would have done . `` ` That 's me rig , ' I says to him , p ` intin ' up to the gaff , ` an ' me coal , an ' I 'll throw the fust man overboard who lays hands on it ! ' An ' then the sergeant come out and took McGaw one side an ' said somethin' to him , with his back to me ; an ' when McGaw turned he was white too , an ' without sayin ' a word he turned the team and druv off .