about eight o'clock
We do n't get any too much game up here , close as we are to the marsh . I 'm too busy , you see , and then besides , I never was a great hand to shoot . In summer I pull in quite some fish at odd times , and that 's all the sport I take . '' It was about eight o'clock when they finally left the farmhouse . The good wife and the three children called out good-bye , as Bones chucked to the horse , and they were off . `` It wo n't be so awful dark on the road , for there 's a half moon peeping out up yonder behind those clouds , '' said Frank . `` Glad of that , '' returned Bones , who was doing the driving , `` because you see , the road is pretty rough till we get on the main one , and if it was pitch dark we might stand for getting tumbled into a ditch alongside .