about ten o'clock
In these annual goose hunts all the Indians who can handle a gun take part . The news of the arrival of the first goose fills a whole village with excitement , and nothing can keep the people from rushing off to the different points , which they each claim year after year , where they hastily build their nests and set their decoys . I well remember how quickly I was deserted by a whole company of Salteaux Indians one spring , on their hearing the long-expected call of a solitary goose that came flying along on the south wind . I had succeeded , after a good deal of persuasion , in getting them to work with me in cutting down trees and preparing the soil for seed sowing , when in the midst of our toil , at about ten o'clock in the forenoon , the distant `` aunk ! aunk ! aunk ! '' of an old grey goose was heard , the outskirmisher of the oncoming crowds .