one o'clock in the morning
` I wish they could just see us now . They 'd gie their skins to jine us . ' ` Rather , ' laughed Dick ; ` this is just about all right . ' It is possible that some persons might not have agreed with him , and at one o'clock in the morning might have preferred their beds to squatting on a heap of brushwood under the shelter of a blanket , the hissing fire making the only cheery spot in the blackness of the cloud - and rain-wrapped moorland . But the scouts would not have changed their situation for quarters in Buckingham Palace . There was the real touch about this . It seemed almost as romantic as a bivouac on a battlefield .