about three o'clock
The city had many laws which to this particular officer appeared unreasonable and which he enforced only when he could n't help himself . In men there is the need of gambling and some other things . As for small boys , they _ must _ play baseball and they _ must _ swim . Bubbles went overboard at about three o'clock . There were twenty or thirty boys of all sizes already in the water , and the addition of one to the struggling group of wet heads was not to be noticed . Nor was the disappearance of that head noticed , nor the fact that it appeared to remain under water for nearly three-quarters of an hour , nor that when it finally did emerge it looked on the whole as if it had seen a ghost . Bubbles , it seems , was less interested in the waters around Pier 31A than in the waters underneath .