about eleven o'clock
`` Why , I feel like a two-year-old colt ! '' And to prove his words he did several steps of a jig . Only about half of the students had as yet arrived , the others being expected that day , Friday , and Saturday . The college coach was to bring in some of the boys about eleven o'clock , and the Rovers wondered if Songbird Powell would be among them . `` You 'll like Songbird , '' said Dick to Stanley Browne . `` He 's a great chap for manufacturing what he calls poetry , but he is n't one of the dreamy kind -- he 's as bright and chipper as you find 'em . '' The boys walked down to the gymnasium , and there Sam and Tom took a few turns on the bars and tried the wooden horses .