about two o'clock
` All the better for mekin ' a camp , ' said Chippy ; and Dick agreed . When they had finished their meal they lay in the sunshine , chatting and watching the fire die away . Before they left they took care that every ember was extinguished , so that no harm could come to the place where they had made their halt . It was about two o'clock when they resumed their journey , and they moved at an easy pace , with the aim of reaching their camping-ground towards five . That would give them ample time to make their preparations for the night . Until four o'clock the march was quite uneventful , then Chippy had an adventure with a baker 's cart . They were passing through a village whose street was spanned at one end by a railway bridge .