eleven o'clock
Brownie was fresh , and he was n't tired when I got there , so we decided to give him an hour 's rest and then ride up into the bush and have a picnic . Pamela showed me her birthday presents while we waited . She 'd had a box sent her by the mail , and she was very delighted about it . `` Well , at perhaps eleven o'clock I set off with Pamela and the rest of the Higson children . There was Jake , just my own age , and Billy , a little younger , and Connie and Minnie , the two smallest . Oh yes , we each had our own horse or pony : Everybody rides out there . We slung baskets and tin cans over our saddles and then started up by the dry bed of the river towards the head of the gully .