three o'clock
in the morning
This part of her decorations was the most difficult of all . The constellations were not made from any geography of the heavens , but from actual nightly observation of the positions of the heavenly bodies . Patience confessed that the getting exactly right of the Great Dipper had caused her most trouble . On the night that was constructed she sat up till three o'clock in the morning , going out and studying it and coming in and putting up one star at a time . How could she reach the high ceiling ? Oh , she took a bean-pole , stuck the gilt star on the end of it , having paste on the reverse side , and fixed it in its place . That was easy , only it was difficult to remember when she came into the house the correct positions of the stars in the heavens .