four o'clock in the afternoon
Just because we never have been beaten , we think we 're invincible . I hope the lesson , when it does come , and if it does come , wo n't be too costly . '' The run to Guernsey was not a very long one . The train arrived there at four o'clock in the afternoon , and the Scouts , armed only with their clasp knives , Scout axes and sticks , lined up on the platform in excellent order . Dick Crawford , who ranked as a lieutenant for the encampment , took command , while Durland reported the arrival to Colonel Henry , as he had been ordered to do . Half a dozen extra sidings had been laid for the occasion by the railroad , and on these long trains , each carrying militia , had been shunted . Clad all in khaki , or , rather , in the substitute adopted by the American army as more serviceable and less easy to distinguish at a distance , a stout cloth of olive drab , thousands of sturdy militiamen were standing at ease , waiting for orders to move .