midnight
he demanded . `` We 'll have a fine time pulling this baby to her . '' But that is what we had to do . We had had our `` fun ; '' now we settled down to doggedly pulling the heavy oars , being divided into two watches , and saw the light of the Scarboro 's trying-out works at midnight ! The Captain and Mr. Rudd had both got small whales and one had been laid aboard each side of the bark . The crew were working like gnomes in a pantomime when we rowed sadly to the bark with our huge tow . How we worked !