about nine o'clock in the morning
Then again he was sleepy and hungry as well . They offered him no more food , so he concluded that they had none . In any event he did not propose to ask for more , even if he were starving . Along about nine o'clock in the morning they came suddenly upon a broad river . Without hesitation the braves plunged their ponies in , with Tad and Pink-eye following . There was nothing else they could do tinder the circumstances . The water was not deep , however , the chief having chosen a spot for fording where the stream was not above the ponies ' hips .