four o'clock
You see , Da has the mortgage on their place . '' So it was agreed Sam was to go for his mother , while Yan was to prepare the Eagle feather and skin the Woodchuck . It was not `` as big as a bear , '' but it was a very large Woodchuck , and Yan was as much elated over the victory as any of them . He still had an hour or more before four o'clock , and eager to make Guy 's triumph as Indian as possible , he cut off all the Woodchuck 's claws , then strung them on a string , with a peeled and pithed Elder twig an inch long between each two . Some of the claws were very , very small , but the intention was there to make a Grizzly-claw necklace . Guy made for home as fast as he could go . His father hailed him as he neared the garden and evidently had plans of servitude , but Guy darted into the dining-room-living-room-bedroom-kitchen-room , which constituted nine-tenths of the house .