eight o'clock
Wallas amused himself by reading over the directions for restoring life to the apparently drowned , and Wester tidied up Bowler 's study and helped him make up the stores into seven equal brown-paper packages , writing the name of the owner of each on the outside . This done , the preparations were pronounced as complete as they could be till Monday dawned . The town holiday was an absolutely free day for the Swishford boys . There was no call-over in the morning , and , indeed , until the evening at eight o'clock they were their own masters . Most of the boys availed themselves of their liberty by lying in bed an hour later than usual on the November morning , a practice which greatly favoured our heroes in their design of escaping a little before dawn . Bowler was the first up , and went round to wake the rest . `` Howwid gwind , '' said Braintree , sitting up for a moment in bed and rubbing his eyes , and then subsiding again under the clothes .