about four o'clock in the afternoon
Luncheon being disposed of , we gathered up our specimen crystals and the fragments of rose quartz , packed the crystals in moss , in the pail , and then tied up the rose quartz in one of our jackets . The latter made a rather heavy pack and , together with the pail , proved quite a load down the mountain and back through the woods to the opening . Willis took the _ deer _ skin ; and Tom carried the _ deer _ meat . We returned across the wooded intervale , seeing no game but a partridge , which Willis shot , and reached the ford and the cabins at about four o'clock in the afternoon . All of us were somewhat tired and sat down on the grass , or the benches , to rest awhile . The sun had already sunk near the tree-tops again ; for by October 20th the afternoons are short in Maine . It was chilly , too .