four
o’clock in the morning
`` Diversion ! '' cried Townsend ; `` I 'm your man ! I 'm up -- _ up to anything _ . '' So , under the name of _ diversion _ , Archer set Townsend to work at four o'clock in the morning . They had nails , a few tools , and several spars , still left from the wreck of the playhouse . These , by Archer 's directions , they sharpened at one end , and nailed them to the ends of several forms . All hands were now called to clear away the supper things , to erect these forms perpendicularly under the trap-door ; and with the assistance of a few braces , a _ chevaux-de-frise _ was formed , upon which nobody could venture to descend .