five o'clock in the morning
I know how that thing is done , and I think we could manage it . '' The uncle did know `` how that thing was done , '' and who meant to do it . Little Tora was provided for from that day ; and so , if she did not sing like Jenny Lind , she sang herself into being a schoolmistress -- a little schoolmistress of the very best order . It was five o'clock in the morning on one of the last days of August . This was no legally-sanctioned Swedish moving-day , and yet it was plain that with somebody a change of residence was in progress . Before a low house on a winding `` cobble-stone '' paved street two long , narrow wagons were standing . Their horses faced in different directions , though in all other respects the two establishments were , even to their loading , like a pair of twins .