Three o'clock
-- ho ! -- ho ! -- one -- two -- three ! '' Three o'clock ! Admonishingly rang out the hour , the jovial face of the clock looking sterner than was its wont . It glowered now like a preacher in his pulpit upon a sinful congregation . Enough of `` snatch-and-catch 'em ; '' enough of Hull 's Victory or the Opera Reel ; let the weary fiddler descend from his bull-rush chair , for soon the touch of dawn will be seen in the eastern sky !