'Tis most noon, sir." Doctor Joe consulted his watch.
"I declare it is.

It must have been nearly eleven o'clock when we reached here.

I didn't realize it was so late." "'Twere ten minutes to eleven, sir," said Andy.

"I were lookin' to see how long it takes us to come from Flat P'int." "What time did we leave Flat Point ?" asked Doctor Joe.
"'Twere twenty minutes before seven, sir." Andy drew his new watch proudly from his pocket to refer to it again, as he did upon every possible occasion.
"No," corrected David, "'twere only twenty-five minutes before eleven when we leaves Flat P'int, and fifteen minutes before eleven when we gets here.

I looks to see." "Perhaps your watches aren't set alike," suggested Doctor Joe.
"Suppose we compare them." The comparison disclosed a difference, as Doctor Joe predicted, of five minutes.