4 o'clock
They brought with them not only four mattresses , but the shotguns and rifles shipped by the boys from the academy for their mid-winter hunting . Ernie announced that their trunks and valises also had arrived and that George , the farm hand , would return for them in the automobile . The work progressed rapidly and by the time the trunks and valises arrived the mattresses were all in position , the food and cooking utensils were stored away in the narrowest compass of space that could be arranged for them and a large pile of resinous wood had been gathered . It was now 4 o'clock and the boys felt that they were entitled to a rest . A large boulder with a flat end two and a half feet in diameter was rolled into the cave and propped into position , with slabs of stone for a table . On this was placed a large kerosene lamp , which , when burning , lighted up the cave very well . A supply of camp chairs had been brought with the first load , so that everybody had a seat .