two hours
after noon
And the next time I overtake you I promise to put a bullet in the back of your scrag neck . '' For answer to this -- seeing that Master Porson stood at an easy distance with his eye on us -- I saluted him gravely and rode out of the courtyard . Now the manner of the wreck was this , and our concern with it . So nearly as I can learn , the _ Saint Andrew _ came ashore at two hours after noon : the date , the 20th of January , 1526 , and the weather at the time coarse and foggy with a gale yet blowing from the south-west or a good west of south , but sensibly abating , and the tide wanting an hour before low water . It happened that Mr. Saint Aubyn was riding , with twenty men at his back , homeward from Gweek , where he had spent three days on some private business , when he heard news of the wreck at a farmhouse on the road to Helleston : and so turning aside , he , whose dwelling lay farthest from it , came first to the cove . The news reached us at Pengersick a little after three o'clock ; as I remember because my Master was just then settled to dinner . But he rose at once and gave word to saddle in haste , at the same time bidding me make ready to ride with him , and fifteen others .