eight o'clock
`` You intend , then , to go on just the same . '' `` Jest the same as ef the sky was clear . I will up anchor as the tide begins to fall , an git a good piece down , so as to dodge Cape Chegnecto , an there wait for the rising tide , an jest the same as ef the sun was shinin . But we ca n't start till eight o'clock this evenin . Anyhow , you need n't trouble yourselves a mite . You may all go to sleep , an dream that the silver moon is guidin the traveller on the briny deep . '' The scene now was too monotonous to attract attention , and the boys once more sought for some mode of passing the time .