half past nine in the morning
I never saw any one pick it up so fast . It was a sort of second nature with him . After the conductor treated him so badly , throwing off his apparatus , boxing his ears and making him hard of hearing , Al seemed to lose his interest in his business as train boy . '' ` Some days Al would stop at my station at half past nine in the morning and stay all day while the train went on to Detroit and returned to Mt. Clemens in the evening . The train baggage man who saw Al rescue Jimmy would get the papers in Detroit and bring them up to Mt. Clemens for him . During these long hours the Edison boy made rapid progress in learning . And every day he made the most of the half hour or more of practice he had while the train stopped at Mt. Clemens each way . ''