one o'clock
Let each party take four or five dollars with them . I want anything that can be got , but my idea is a couple of young kids , three or four ducks , or a couple of geese , as many chickens , and of course any vegetables that you can get hold of . My man Sancho is a capital cook , and he will get fires ready and two or three assistants . They will be here by one o'clock , so the foraging parties had better return by ten . '' `` If there is anything to be brought you shall have it , Colonel , '' Bull said ; `` Macwitty and I will both go ourselves , and we will get half a dozen of the captains to go too ; between us it is hard if we do n't manage to get enough . '' By ten o'clock the officers rode in , almost every one of them having some sort of bird or beast hanging from his saddle-bow ; there were two kids , a sucking pig , two hares , half a dozen chickens , three geese , and five ducks , while the nets which they carried for forage for their horses were filled with vegetables . Half a dozen fires had already been lighted , and Sancho had obtained as many assistants , so that by the time the colonel and fifteen officers rode up lunch was ready .