ten o'clock
`` Morn , '' said Kirstin . `` I tell the gentleman that Karl and Axel have had coffee . Has the gentleman anything to command ? '' `` Tell them I am ready to go fishing , '' said Hardy ; `` but if we catch any trout and the trout are in the kitchen by ten o'clock , can we have them cooked for breakfast ? '' `` If the gentleman 's fish are there , the frying-pan is ready , '' replied Kirstin ; `` but the Herr Pastor would not wish the gentleman to be without a breakfast . '' It was clear Kirstin doubted a trout breakfast 's possibility . John Hardy began to doubt too ; but he took his fishing-rod , a light sixteen-foot fly rod , and called the two boys , who rushed into his room eager to a degree .