9 o'clock
Every mile made now may save us trouble later ; for you know what old Pap Larkin told us about sudden freezes coming sometimes in November , and we want to get in the big river before we strike anything like that . '' In less than ten minutes they were moving out of the mouth of the creek , with the river , half wreathed in fog , lying before them . `` We 'll have to keep a good lookout , unless we want to run a chance of cutting down some river steamer coming upstream , '' laughed Thad . `` Oh , that 's easily avoided by keeping close in by the shore until this mist rises , which I calculate it will do by 9 o'clock or so , '' replied Maurice , using his pole to advantage , so as to send the boat out upon the current of the river , where they were speedily moving merrily along . It was a delight to cook breakfast with such surroundings , and a constantly changing panorama along the shore . Never did bacon have such a delicious odor ; and when the coffee boiled up , sending its fragrance throughout the cabin and out of the partly open door , Maurice , who was attending to the steering part of the business at the time , loudly bewailed the fact that he must wait five long minutes more ere satisfying the craving appetite that these suggestions of breakfast put on edge . While they were still eating they passed a place on the Kentucky side that from the map they believed to be Uniontown , which proved that they were making fair progress while sitting around -- which is one of the finest things in connection with drifting south .