about three in the morning
He deserves it . '' `` So did Gabbett , for that matter , '' shudders Vetch . `` Ay , but Bodenham 's feet are sore , '' said Sanders , `` and 't is a pity to leave him . '' Having no fire , they make a little breakwind ; and Vetch , half-dozing behind this at about three in the morning , hears someone cry out `` Christ ! '' and awakes , sweating ice . No one but Gabbett and Greenhill would eat that night . That savage pair , however , make a fire , fling ghastly fragments on the embers , and eat the broil before it is right warm .