seven
o'clock in the evening
I should like you to beat that analysis , if you can ! With the disposal of our antagonists so easily at the end , we began our second innings with more sanguine expectations than could have been imagined from our previous prostration . `` Black had better go in as first man along with you , Hardy , and see what he can do , '' our captain said . The two accordingly went to the wickets at the beginning of the innings ; and there they remained without giving a single chance until the conclusion of the day 's play , when the stumps were drawn at seven o'clock in the evening . Young Black had scored by that time no less than eighty off his own bat , and Hardy forty-one , after being in to their own cheek exactly as long as the Inimitables ' whole innings lasted . It was glorious , one hundred and eighteen without the loss of a wicket , and the bowling and fielding must have been good , as there were only seven extras all that long while our men had been in . Why , that placed us thirty-one runs to the good at the close of the first day 's play .