midnight
`` You 're right , Butterface , '' cried the Captain , rousing himself from a reverie . `` What say you , comrades ? Shall we turn in an ' have a nap ? It 's past midnight . '' `` I 'm not inclined for sleep , '' said Alf , looking up from some of the botanical specimens he had collected . `` No more am I , '' said Leo , lifting up his arms and stretching his stalwart frame , which , notwithstanding his youth , had already developed to almost the full proportions of a powerful man . `` I vote that we sit up all night , '' said Benjy , `` the sun does it , and why should n't we ? ''