ten o'clock
And we were not five rods from the railroad , though in that blizzard we could no more see it than we could Jericho . It took half an hour to dig out the sled and get started , with Kaiser barking , and his breath like a puff of a locomotive at every bark , it was so cold . I put on the skees now -LRB- which I had had tied on the sled -RRB- and off we went over the drifts , now packed hard , at a good rate . It was no more than ten o'clock when I saw a white cloud of smoke far ahead and knew we were coming to the siding ; and Kaiser saw it too , I think , and we both started to run and could n't help it . And half a mile farther we saw a man coming slowly ; and who was it but dear old Tom Carr ! I think I never was so glad to see anybody in my life . The poor fellow was so weak that he could hardly stand , but he was making a start for Track 's End .