twelve o'clock
`` If you know it better than I do , tell it ! Give me some tobacco , Chris , '' said Bill , honoring with the request the only man in the circle who had shown no scepticism , because he spoke English with difficulty . `` And say , Chris , go down and read the bridge gauge , will you ? It 's close on twelve o'clock , and he 's to be called when it reaches twenty-eight feet . I said the boy could never run the division without help from every man on it , and that 's what I 'm giving him , and I do n't care who knows it , '' said Bill Dancing , raising his voice not too much . `` Bucks says that any man that c 'n run this division c 'n run any railroad on earth . Shoo !