midday
So then we was pretty scared , and made up an agreement that we would n't have nothing in the world to do with such actions , and if we ever got the least show we would give them the cold shake and clear out and leave them behind . Well , early one morning we hid the raft in a good , safe place about two mile below a little bit of a shabby village named Pikesville , and the king he went ashore and told us all to stay hid whilst he went up to town and smelt around to see if anybody had got any wind of the Royal Nonesuch there yet . -LRB- `` House to rob , you MEAN , '' says I to myself ; `` and when you get through robbing it you 'll come back here and wonder what has become of me and Jim and the raft -- and you 'll have to take it out in wondering . '' -RRB- And he said if he war n't back by midday the duke and me would know it was all right , and we was to come along . So we stayed where we was . The duke he fretted and sweated around , and was in a mighty sour way . He scolded us for everything , and we could n't seem to do nothing right ; he found fault with every little thing .