four o'clock
`` Yes , mate , '' he replied , eyeing me , curiously . `` Yer said sumthin ' about a crew . '' `` I must have been dreaming , '' I said ; and rose up to put away my plate . _ The Ghost Ships _ At four o'clock , when again we went on deck , the Second Mate told me to go on with a paunch mat I was making ; while Tammy , he sent to get out his sinnet . I had the mat slug on the fore side of the mainmast , between it and the after end of the house ; and , in a few minutes , Tammy brought his sinnet and yarns to the mast , and made fast to one of the pins . `` What do you think it was , Jessop ? '' he asked , abruptly , after a short silence .