eight o'clock in the morning
`` How did it happen ? '' `` There was a high wind , '' Durrance explained . `` It took my helmet off . It was eight o'clock in the morning . I did not mean to move my camp that day , and I was standing outside my tent in my shirt-sleeves . So you see that I had not even the collar of a coat to protect the nape of my neck . I was fool enough to run after my helmet ; and -- you must have seen the same thing happen a hundred times -- each time that I stooped to pick it up it skipped away ; each time that I ran after it , it stopped and waited for me to catch it up .