eleven o'clock
in the morning
And he led the way to the kitchen , and got up a little laugh , and asked the scullery-maid if she could show Mr. Skinner and him the dust-hole . She stared , but obeyed , and the pair followed her , making merry . The dust-hole was empty . The girl explained : `` It is the dustman 's day : he came at eleven o'clock in the morning and carried all the dust away : and grumbled at the paper and the bones , he did . So I told him beggars mus n't be choosers : just like his impudence ! when he gets it for nothing , and sells it for a mint outside the town . '' The unwonted visitors left her in dead silence almost before she had finished her sentence .