About four
o'clock in the afternoon
My favorite sport came nigh being the death of me , and it always makes me shiver to think of it . I started out one spring morning at five o'clock , and did not get home till two o'clock the next morning , and not a mouthful did I have to eat . I had fair success during the day , but was bothered by the quantities of ice running , and a high wind . About four o'clock in the afternoon I concluded to return home , for I was tired and hungry . I was then out in the river off Plum Point . I saw an opening leading south , and paddled into it , but had not gone far before the wind drove the ice in upon me , and blocked the passage . There I was , helpless , and it began to blow a gale .