about ten o'clock in the morning
`` Now it will have to be wholly replaced . The strength of God was in me and I broke it with my fist . '' Snow lay deep in the streets of Winesburg . It had begun to snow about ten o'clock in the morning and a wind sprang up and blew the snow in clouds along Main Street . The frozen mud roads that led into town were fairly smooth and in places ice covered the mud . `` There will be good sleighing , '' said Will Henderson , standing by the bar in Ed Griffith 's saloon . Out of the saloon he went and met Sylvester West the druggist stumbling along in the kind of heavy overshoes called arctics .