eight o'clock
Both boys were tired , but too excited to think of doing much in the way of sleeping . So Jack laid out the balance of the night in watches , and during the six hours remaining he and Jimmie managed to pick up a little rest ; though when morning came both of them were feeling , as Josh Purdue would have said , `` pretty punk . '' They managed to get breakfast , and both of the men were fed after a fashion , although the cautious Jack would take few chances of allowing them to have their hands free . At eight o'clock the little _ Tramp _ put out of the cove , and once more breasted the brawling Mississippi flood that moved ceaselessly southward . Jack kept near the Tennessee shore for many reasons . He wished to get rid of the two prisoners as soon as he could , and meant to go ashore when he came to the first good-sized town , where he had reason to believe the captured robbers would be properly taken care of , and the recovered valuables placed safely , awaiting the claim of the bank authorities . On the afternoon of the preceding day they had heard many faint reports as of guns .