about three o'clock
He had learned this as he had learned a good many other things , merely because he thought that every young man should know how to do tolerably well whatever he might sometime need to do , and in a new country where shops are scarce and workmen are not always to be found , there is no mechanical art which it is not sometimes very convenient to know something about . Sam wrought now so expertly that within less than an hour he had made six arrow points . These he fitted to six of the arrows , and then he suspended work for the evening , and marked progress on his map ; that is to say , he pricked on his map with a pin the course followed during the afternoon , estimating the distance travelled as accurately as he could . The next day the march was resumed , and continued with some haltings for rest until about three o'clock , when Sam chose a camp for the night , saying that they had already made a better march than he had planned for that day , and that there was no occasion to break themselves down by going further . The work was at once resumed upon guns and arrows , Sam beginning by finishing the arrows already made . He cut strips from a hare 's skin which Tommy had brought with him at Sam 's request , making each strip about four or five inches long , and just wide enough to meet around the end of an arrow . Binding these strips firmly , the arrows were complete .