three o'clock
Well , as we was drivin ' up to the depot , we met the same two young men , and the captain asked 'em , ` Are you goin ' or not a-goin ' ? ' -- just that way ; and they said , ` We 're goin ' . ' And he said , ` When you comin ' aboard ? ' and he told 'em he was goin ' to haul out this mornin ' at three o'clock . And they asked what tug , and he told 'em , and they fixed it up between 'em all then that they was to come aboard from the tug , when she 'd got the ship outside ; and that 's what I suppose they did . The captain he said to me he had n't mentioned it before , because he wa 'n' t sure ' t they 'd go till that minute . He give 'em a first-rate of a character . ''