three o'clock
Then they drew a big wood during which they ate their lunch and drank their sherry . In the big wood they found a fox but could not do anything with him . After that they came on a third in a stubble field and ran him well for half an hour , when he went to ground . It was then three o'clock ; and as the days were now at the shortest the master declined to draw again . They were then about sixteen miles from Mistletoe , and about ten from Stamford where Lord Rufford 's horses were standing . The distance from Stamford to Mistletoe was eight . Lord Rufford proposed that they should ride to Stamford and then go home in a hired carriage .