When Hawkins said, ‘it’s twenty minutes after six’ and ‘it’s a quarter
to eleven,’ Fordney knew he was not a railroad man.
No railroad worker _ever_ speaks of the time in any other manner than,
‘it’s six-twenty’ and ‘it’s ten-forty-five.’
_Ask the next conductor!_
There is nothing more nearly permanent in human life than a
well-established custom.
Joseph Anderson.