four o'clock
`` Why , Thomas , are you not willing to share your bountiful harvest with those who have none ? '' `` Indeed I am . It 's that makes me so glad this morning . I had that good-for-nothing Sam up at four o'clock , helping me saw the boards to build them bins to put the garden sass in . He reckoned you 'd a much sight better have been staying in them foreign parts than be giving decent folks such bother . I give him a clip on the ear that made him howl in earnest , I can tell you . I says to him , says I , ` Why , one would think you was one of the aristocracy yourself to hear you talk so indifferent like about the poor folk .