About eleven o'clock
`` I allow that must be so , Tom . But you want to be careful even so . A big mountain deer or a bear aint to be fooled with , I can tell you that . '' About eleven o'clock they came to the first falls above Timber Run . Here the water was frozen into solid masses , but the way was so uneven they found it profitable to take off their skates and `` tote '' the sleds around the spot . This necessitated a walk of several hundred feet through the timber skirting the edge of the river . The way was uncertain , and John Barrow went ahead , to steer the party clear of any danger .