nearly four o'clock
The laps were then `` turned '' over the edge of an axe with a billet of wood cut from the old cross-bars of Davies 's shooting-box , which were young ash saplings . Then the pieces were put together , the laps solidly beaten down , and despite a little irregularity of shape , the job was not a bad one . Five other decoys furnished as many parallelograms of seventeen by eight and a half , which made good two and three quarter inch pipe , and afforded nearly seven feet in length when affixed to the cylinder . It was nearly four o'clock when the work was thus far completed . `` If we only had a flat stone to set it on , '' said Waring . `` I should not despair of that even , '' said La Salle , `` if we dared look around on some of the older floes ; but we shall have to do without one for a day or two , I think . '' `` Peter make glate , three , two minutes , only glate burn up every day or two ; '' and hastening out , he returned with a very large decoy , which , on account of its portentous size , had been made the leader of the `` set '' when arranged on the ice .