one o'clock before
`` Did you ever hear of such meanness ? '' `` He 's as bad as he was last summer , when he drove us away from Lake Cameron , '' said Snap , bitterly . For some time after that the young hunters were silent , each busy with his own thoughts . Driven away from the vicinity of Lake Cameron , they had to make another wide detour , and it was one o'clock before they came in sight of Firefly Lake , nestling so cozily among the hills . `` It will take at least an hour and a half to get down to the lake and up to camp , '' said Snap . `` Shall we go on or stop for dinner ? '' `` I am as hungry as two bears , '' said Whopper .