about four in the afternoon
_ Second day out at sea . _ Dear Mama : We did get off at last , about four in the afternoon , but you never imagined anything like the day we had with Uncle John . It was awful , and , as luck would have it , he just happened to go aft or sou ` west , or whatever it is on shipboard , in time to see them drop his trunk into the hold , and they let it fall from such a height that he swore for an hour . I do n't see why Uncle is so unreasonable ; a Russian gentleman had the locks broken to both his trunks and just smiled , and a very lovely Italian lady had her trunk caved in by the hoisting-rope and only shrugged her shoulders ; but Uncle turned the whole deck fairly black and blue on account of a little fall into the hold . If Lee had only been along to soothe him down !