about three o'clock
`` Oh , do n't ask me , '' said Dickenson , laughing . `` I 'm not a Boer : how can I tell ? They 'll have hatched out some dodge . Got a balloon all the way from Komati Poort , perhaps , and about three o'clock they 'll have it right over the top of the kopje , and if we had been up there I dare say we should have found them sliding down ropes like spiders . '' `` Highly probable , '' said Lennox dryly . `` Ah , you may jest ; but you see if they do n't come crawling right close up like so many slugs on a wet night . The first thing we shall know will be that they are there . ''