About 8 o'clock
When the alarm clock went to work the next morning Clara J. turned around and gave it a look that made its teeth chatter . She had been up and doing an hour before that clock grew nervous enough to crow . Her enthusiasm was so great that she was a Busy-Lizzie long before 7 o'clock and we were not booked to leave the Choo-Choo House till 10:30 . About 8 o'clock she dragged me away from a dream and I reluctantly awoke to a realization of the fact that I was due to deliver some goods which I had never seen and did n't want to see . `` Get up , John ! '' Clara J. suggested , with a degree of excitement in her voice ; `` it 's getting dreadfully late and you know I 'm all impatience to see that lovely home you 've bought for me in the country ! '' -LSB- Illustration : Clara J. -- A Dream of Peaches -- Please Pass the Cream . -RSB-