eight o'clock
It was Bud who spoke , and all Tinkletown was afterward to resound with stories of his bravery . The boy had been silently admiring the bold sportsman from Boston town , and he was ready to cast his lot with him in this adventure . He thrilled with pleasure when the big hero slapped him on the back and called him the only man in the crowd . At eight o'clock that night Bonner and the determined but trembling Bud came up the bank from the river and pitched a tent among the trees near the haunted house . From the sledge on the river below they trundled up their bedding and their stores . Bud had an old single-barrel shotgun , a knife and a pipe , which he was just learning to smoke ; Bonner brought a Navajo blanket , a revolver and a heavy walking stick . He also had a large flask of whiskey and the pipe that had graduated from Harvard with him .