one o'clock
Whenever the beaters would rout or sight a wolf , the yelling would continue up and down the line for several minutes . Cave and his well-formed circle of beaters were making good time ; Reese on the left flank was closing and moving forward , while the line under Lynch was as impatient as it was hilarious . Miller made the circle every half hour or so ; and had only to mention it to pick any horse he wanted from the entire line for a change . By one o'clock the drive had closed to the entrance of the pocket , and within a mile and a half of the termination . There was yet enough cover to hide the quarry , though the extreme point of this horseshoe was a sand bar with no shelter except driftwood trees . Edwards and his squad were at their post across the river , in plain view of the advancing line . Suddenly they were seen to dismount and lie down on the brink of the cut-bank .