nine o'clock
It takes boys a long time to learn to plan such trips as this in light marching order , doing without everything save absolute necessities . Why , there was Bobolink , who ought to have known better , actually trying to get Paul to allow him to take along that little garden pump , with its line of hose . Just because it had come in so happily when those jokers meant to cut the hawser , and set the two boats adrift , Bobolink declared there could be no telling how many times it would prove a blessing ; but Paul utterly refused to carry such a burden ; and so in the end it was put ashore , and given in charge of the twins to return in safety to the Link garden . When nine o'clock struck , everything seemed to be ready . `` I ca n't think of anything else ; can you . Jack ? '' Paul asked his second in command , and who was to take charge of the _ Speedwell _ , while Paul himself ran the other craft .