three o'clock
And when we stand before the judgment-seat , I can tell a damnsight more good things about Red than he can about me . I 'm going out to find him and get him a square meal . '' And so , while we were debating , Mehronay went down the Jericho road looking for the man who was lying there , beaten and bruised and waiting for the Samaritan . `` Thirty '' In the afternoon , between two and three o'clock , the messenger boy from the telegraph office brings over the final sheet of the day 's report of the Associated Press . Always at the end is the signature `` Thirty . '' That tells us that the report is closed for the day . Just why `` Thirty '' should be used to indicate the close of the day 's work no one seems to know .