about six
o'clock
Finding that there was no help for it , Old Peg followed , and the flock trailed after her in a woolly file several hundred feet long . Flourishing my stick and shouting loudly , I urged on the rear of the procession . In less than half an hour we met the old Squire with the team and two men from the Morey farm . The old gentleman had arrived there about six o'clock the night before and had been worried as to what had become of us . He must have passed the place where Old Peg had bolted up the road not long after we were there ; but it was already so dark that he had not seen our snow-covered tracks . `` Well , well , boys , you must have had a hard time of it ! '' were his first words .