six o'clock
In the busy time of year there are ten thousand men in the town and it is a scene of constant revelry and wildness . The _ Charming Lass _ touched the port at the height of its season -- early September -- and , because of the shallowness of the harbor close in , anchored in the bay amid a crowd of old high-pooped schooners , filled with noisy , happy Frenchmen . There were other nationalities , too , in the cosmopolitan bay -- Americans setting a new spar or Nova Scotians in on a good time . The _ Charming Lass _ cast her anchor shortly before six o'clock , having made the run in five and a half hours with a good breeze behind . Code and Ellinwood immediately went over the side in the brown dory of the mate and pulled for the customhouse wharf . The rest of the crew were forbidden off the decks except to sleep under them , for it was intended , as soon as the bait was lightered aboard , to make sail to the Banks again . The bait industry in St. Pierre is one more or less open to examination .