five o'clock in the morning
It 's rather odd how Dinky-Dunk got this ranch , which used to be called the Cochrane Ranch , for even behind this peaceful little home of ours there is a touch of tragedy . Hugh Cochrane was one of Dinky-Dunk 's surveyors when he first took up railroad work in British Columbia . Hugh had a younger brother Andrew , who was rather wild and had been brought out here and planted on the prairie to keep him out of mischief . One winter night he rode nearly thirty miles to a dance -LRB- they do that apparently out here , and think nothing of it -RRB- and instead of riding home at five o'clock in the morning , with the others , he visited a whisky-runner who was operating a `` blind pig . '' There he acquired much more whisky than was good for him and got lost on the trail . That meant he was badly frozen and probably out of his mind before he got back to the shack . He was n't able to keep up a fire , of course , or do anything for himself -- and I suppose the poor boy simply froze to death .