two o'clock
I guess Uncle Ezra was too much for Pa in joking when they were boys , 'cause Pa told me that all rules against joking were suspended while Uncle Ezra was here , and for me to play any thing on him I could . I told Pa I was trying to lead a different life , but he said what I wanted to do was to make Uncle Ezra think of old times , and the only way was to keep him on the ragged edge . I thought if there was anything I could do to make it pleasant for my Uncle , it was my duty to do it , so I fixed the bed slats on the spare bed so they would fall down at 2 A. M. the first night , and then I retired . At two o'clock I heard the awfulest noise in the spare room , and a howling and screaming , and I went down to meet Uncle Ezra in the hall , and he asked me what was the matter in there , and I asked him if he did n't sleep in the spare room , and he said no , that Pa and Ma was in there , and he slept in their room . Then we went in the spare room and you 'd a dide to see Pa. '' -LSB- Illustration : Pa was all tied up 146 -RSB- `` Ma had jumped out when the slats first fell , and was putting her hair up in curl papers when we got in , but Pa was all tangled up in the springs and things . His head had gone down first , and the mattrass and quilts rolled over him , and he was almost smothered , and we had to take the bedsted down to get him out , the way you have to unharness a horse when he runs away and falls down , before you can get him up . Pa was mad , but Uncle Ezra laughed at him , and told him he was only foundered , and all he wanted was a bran mash and some horse liniment and he would come out all right .