Eleven o'clock
`` Feel as if they were being scalded , '' he complained . `` I 've heard Jim say a fog-burn was worse than any other kind . Now I know he 's right . '' Eleven o'clock , and still twenty-five traps to be pulled . Most of these were on the Dog and Pups , a group of ledges more than a mile northeast of the island . It was the best spot for lobsters anywhere about Tarpaulin . Percy hesitated .