about two o'clock in the morning
`` Here is a cove -- we can haul her up in that , '' said Snap , and this was done , and the craft was tied fast to two trees . Having had but little sleep the night before , all the young hunters were tired out , and it was not long after getting supper that they crawled into the tent and went to sleep . On account of the wind they did not dare to leave the campfire burning , for they knew only too well how easy it is to set a forest on fire through such carelessness . At about two o'clock in the morning Giant awoke , to find the rain coming down steadily on the tent . He crawled to the front of the shelter and looked out . All was pitch dark , and , somehow , the prospect made him shiver . The wind had gone down , and only the fall of the rain broke the stillness .