ten A.M.
an hour-glass ? '' `` That ! '' said Benjamin , looking coolly over the sheriff 's shoulder , and rolling the tobacco about in his mouth with a jocular air ; `` why , that 's a small matter of my own . It 's no moon , squire , but only Betty Hollister 's face ; for , dye see , sir , hearing all the same as if she had got up a new cargo of Jamaiky from the river , I called in as I was going to the church this morning -- ten A.M. was it ? -- just the time -- and tried a glass ; and so I logged it , to put me in mind of calling to pay her like an honest man . '' `` That was it , was it ? '' said the sheriff , with some displeasure at this innovation on his memoranda ; `` and could you not make a better glass than this ?