about eleven o'clock in the morning
` Gents , ' says McGuire to me and Windy Jordan , ` I shore did make the error of my life when I done that act of kindness . I merely meant them peanuts as a special treat , but Emily figures it out that they 're the start of a fixed habit , ' he says . ` Ever since then , if I forget to bring her in her one five-cent bag of peanuts per diem , per day , she calls personally to inquire into the oversight . She waits very patient and ladylike until about eleven o'clock in the morning , and if I ai n't made good by then , she just pulls up her leg hobble by the roots and drops in on me to find out what 's the meaning of the delay . '' ` She ai n't never rough nor overbearing , but it interferes with trade for me to be sitting here in my office at the front of the stable talking business with somebody , and all of a sudden the front half of the largest East Indian elephant in the world shoves three or four thousand pounds of herself in at that side door and begins waving her trunk around in the air , meanwhile uttering fretful , complaining sounds . I 've lost two or three customers that way , ' he says . ` They get right up and go away sudden , ' he says , ` and they do n't never come back no more , not even for their hats and umbrellas .