about two o'clock
there 's Kathie , and she 's got some cookies that are too dry to sell ; I 'm going to help her eat them , '' with which laudable purpose away she ran , to forget the limitations of her sex in an operation dear to both . About a week later came this letter from Morton . DEAR SARA AND MOLLY , -- As I 'm all alone , with nothing to do , and the gnats wo n't let me sleep , and I 've got more than we need to eat , so it 's no good to hunt or fish , I thought I 'd start a letter , and when I get to a post-office again I 'll mail it . To begin at the beginning , we launched the Bonny Doon about two o'clock , and at once set sail for the south -LRB- we really poled the boat along , for there was n't a breath of wind , and it was hardly deep enough to keep her afloat ; but it sounds better to say `` set sail , '' you know -RRB- , and were making about four knots an hour , when I saw the professor open a long wooden box I had noticed among the outfit , and take out a gun , all in sections , and begin to put it together . That made me feel better , for I was really afraid he had forgotten how useful a gun is out camping ; and I was so taken up watching him fit it together that I almost forgot my poling , till he suddenly sung out , for all the world like a regular sailor , `` Hard a-port , lad ! Mind your course there , or we 'll be swamped , '' and , sure enough , I had to swing her out into the stream , or we 'd have run aground . But that was the end of the marshes , and then we did rig up our sail , and 't was a fine old fly , I tell you .