five o'clock
They get enough to eat , even if there is n't much variety , and the quality is n't of the best . The stuff is wholesome , anyhow -- that 's what counts . '' By the time he returned from headquarters , the Troop was sound asleep , save for the sentries , Tom Binns and Harry French , who challenged him briskly . Reveille sounded at five o'clock . There was plenty to be done before the war game actually began . There were plans to be laid , codes to be determined , umpires to be consulted as to vague and indefinite rules , and all sorts of little things that in a real war would have adjusted themselves . But the Scouts were well out of the excitement .