about eight
o'clock
Sometimes she changes her schedule and do n't go back till Saturday -- and sometimes they get up an excursion here to go up to Copperas Creek , and then she do n't go back until that 's over . But when she gets in , just ask the captain , and he 'll know for sure . '' -LSB- Illustration : Looking Straight up into the Sky -RSB- After supper , we walked out by the river . We waited till about eight o'clock and then took a swim , and I was beginnin ' to think where we was goin ' to sleep . But Mitch had decided that . There was a shed near the shore with the slant away from the river , and Mitch says , `` That 's the place . The water moccasins wo n't bother us there , and the mosquitoes wo n't , after a bit , and we can see down the river for miles , and see the _ City of Peoria _ when she first turns the bend down there . ''