nine o'clock
When the beans were finally cooked , Daylight ran part of them into a bag of flour-sacking a foot and a half long and three inches in diameter . This he then laid on the snow to freeze . The remainder of the beans were left in the pot for breakfast . It was past nine o'clock , and they were ready for bed . The squabbling and bickering among the dogs had long since died down , and the weary animals were curled in the snow , each with his feet and nose bunched together and covered by his wolf 's brush of a tail . Kama spread his sleeping-furs and lighted his pipe . Daylight rolled a brown-paper cigarette , and the second conversation of the evening took place .