16:05
Gladly climbs on Winky's bucket and asks to say the other number. Not one short - fifty-four. At seven o'clock there were none, there was a box in a ditch and nobody had any oil. Nine came out of the nettles, nineteen hinges were mended, forty feet of rope came out of a knot, the orchard is done. The yard gets up off the floor.
So I climbed on Winky's bucket, which had been standing in that yard since morning, and asked if I could say the other number.
"What other number?"
"Fifty-four," I said. "This morning there were none. There were none at seven o'clock, and there was a box in a ditch, and nobody had any oil."
Somebody stopped stacking things.
