About nine o'clock
They slept under the friendly ledges . It was , after all was said , a pretty `` rocky '' bed , as Josh termed it ; but since the ground outside was so well soaked , and there was always more or less peril in the shape of another landslide , none of the boys complained , or expressed his feelings in more than sundry grunts . With the coming of morning the strange camp was astir , and one by one the boys painfully crawled out , to try to get some of the stiffness from their limbs by jumping around and `` skylarking . '' About nine o'clock the hike was resumed Mr. Witherspoon did not think it advisable to go on up the mountain any further after that avalanche ; he believed they would have just as good a time passing around the base , and in the end making a complete circuit of the high elevation . The day turned out to be a delightful one after the storm . It seemed as though the air had been purified , and even in the middle of the day it was not unpleasantly warm . `` We ought to make that little lake by the afternoon , ought n't we , Tom ? ''