Three o'clock
And I do n't want your ten dollars nuther . '' Doctoring an engine may be easy enough -- in stories . But to doctor a gasoline engine so that it will run for a certain length of time and THEN break down is not so easy . Three o'clock came and the problem was still unsolved . Issy , the perspiration running down his face , stood up in the Lady May 's cockpit and looked out across the bay , smooth and glassy in the afternoon sun . The sky overhead was clear and blue , but along the eastern and southern horizon was a gray bank of cloud , heaped in tumbled masses . A sunburned lobsterman in rubber boots and a sou ` wester was smoking on the wharf .