four o'clock in the afternoon
Macgregor had already left his toboggan at a sporting-goods store to be equipped with runners for use on ice . But there remained an immense amount of shopping to do , and all the things had to be purchased at half a dozen different places . Together they went the rounds of the shops with a list from which they checked off article after article , -- ammunition , sleeping-bags , moccasins , food , camp outfit , -- and they ordered them all sent to Macgregor 's rooms by special delivery . At four o'clock in the afternoon the boys went back , and found the room littered with innumerable parcels of every shape and size . Only the toboggan had not arrived , though it had been promised for the middle of the afternoon . `` Gracious ! It looks like a lot ! ''