nine o’clock at night
THE Hut Club went out on a picnic the next Saturday , and had a jolly time . They camped upon an island in the middle of a shallow stream , and while there made coffee and cooked their dinner , having brought most of the necessary apparatus from the Hut . They fished a little , and hunted for turtles in the water , and altogether had a good time , if nothing exciting did occur . It was after nine o'clock at night when they reached town again , footsore and weary , and Archie Dunn had hardly entered the house before he was on the dining-room lounge , half-asleep . His mother seemed to be out , and as he lay there he wondered how long it would be before she came back . Archie truly loved his mother , but of late he had often thought that he would like to leave home and go to the famous city , where he felt sure he could get something to do . But he disliked the idea of leaving his mother .