about six o'clock
Harry Higginson and Drake voted `` screw , '' whilst Alfred and I said `` good fellow . '' We must pass over the `` goodbyes '' of the next morning . Let us imagine there were no wet eyes and sinking hearts . However it may have been , the big rumbling old stage-coach containing Mr Clare and five boys , and loaded well with trunks and boxes , rattled from our house in -- Street at about six o'clock on that eighth morning in May , fifty years ago . Our hearts cheered up with the growth of the sun . By ten o'clock we were very talkative ; by one , very hungry . The contents of a basket , well-stored by our mother , and put in just as we were starting , settled that complaint .