four o'clock
Why , he goes like clockwork . I just winds him up once with a bit o ' corn and a drink o ' water , starts him , and there 's his old legs go tick-tack , tick-tack , and his head swinging like a pendulow . Use ` is secon ' natur ' , and all I 've got to do is to tie up the reins to the fore ladder and go to sleep if I like , for he knows his way as well as a Christian . ` Leven o'clock I starts ; four o'clock he gets to the market ; and if it was n't for thieves , and some one to look after the baskets , that old hoss could go and do the marketing all hisself . '' It was all wonderfully fresh and enjoyable to me , that ride along the quiet country road , with another market cart jolting on about a hundred yards ahead , and another one as far behind , while no doubt there were plenty more , but they did not get any closer together , and no one seemed to hurry or trouble in the least . We trudged on together for some distance , and then Ike made a couple of seats for us under the ladder by folding up sacks , on one of which I sat , on the other he . Very uncomfortable seats I should call them now ; most enjoyable I thought them then , and with no other drawback than a switch now and then from the horse 's long tail , an attention perfectly unnecessary , for at that time of night there were no flies .