eight o'clock
_ Oh ! _ '' said I. `` You and the pork must be back here day after to-morrow , -- so be spry , '' said he . I rather think I was , Johnny . It was just eight o'clock when I started ; it took some time to get breakfast , and feed the nags , and get orders . I stood there , slapping the snow with my whip , crazy to be off , hearing the last of what Mr. Cullen had to say . They gave me the two horses , -- we had n't but two , -- oxen are tougher for going in , as a general thing , -- and the lightest team on the ground ; it was considerably lighter than Bob Stokes 's . If it had n't been for the snow , I might have put the thing through in two days , but the snow was up to the creatures ' knees in the shady places all along ; off from the road , in among the gullies , you could stick a four-foot measure down anywhere .