THE HOURS
A journalist once wrote an essay on the hours, summing them up like this: The hour after breakfast is when you are cheerful and ambitious. The hour between 10 and 11 is the hour of effort. (Impossible to see 10.30 marked by the clock’s hands without being roused to the necessity of doing something.) Eleven suggests break and biscuits. Eleven to 12 is the most serious working hour of the day. (Twelve has a bad record, and is notorious for unpleasant things: was not Charles the First beheaded at 12?) One or two is the happy hour when everybody is hungry. Two to six—the open-air hours fthe excitement of seeing the clock at half-past two, and knowing you are due to play cricket at three is,
perhaps, the happiest moment of all). Six o’clock is the cheerful hour, the lovely hour in summer of long shadows and soft light. At seven is the hour of peace, the hour when you cheerfully postpone things left undone till to-morrow.
But the evening hours are the hours for friendship, and the hours for wishing and planning.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 59, 1 June 1927, Page 14
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185THE HOURS Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 59, 1 June 1927, Page 14
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