six o'clock
`` Arrah , ' t is in yez pocket aready , colonel , '' cried one of the sappers . `` Sure , how kin a Frinchman expect to bate us whin nary ground-hog nor baver , the aither av thim , is theer in his counthry to tache him how to work wid earth an ' timber ? '' So well was the night spent that when morning dawned the British found a long line of new earthworks stretched along their front ; and though instantly their guns began cannonading them , the men were now protected and could dig on , unheeding of the fire . Indeed , such was the enthusiasm that when at six o'clock the order came for the regiments to fall in , and it was found that they were to be replaced by fresh troops , there was open grumbling . '' ' T is we did the work , '' complained a sergeant , `` and now them fellows who slept all night will steal the glory . '' `` Not a bit of it , boys , '' denied Brereton , as he was passing down the lines preparatory to giving the order of march . `` There are still redoubts to be made and the guns are not up yet . '