about
six in the morning
The moss and the fern inside were perfectly dry , and he had not the slightest feeling of dampness about him . His camp was a complete success . He now went off to search for clams . The tide had been high at about six in the morning . It was now , as he judged , about ten or eleven , and the water was quite low . Selecting a piece of shingle from his wood-pile , he walked down over the mud flat that extended from the point , and , after going a little distance , he noticed the holes that give indications of the presence of clams beneath . Turning up the sand , he soon threw out some of them .