eleven o'clock
Both of them felt that they had been favored by fortune to an extraordinary degree , and they were very happy . The old boat was sailed back to her usual moorings . The tinkers were equally divided between the young fishermen , and they went home . By eleven o'clock Stumpy had poured into the lap of his astonished mother the proceeds of his morning 's work , and Leopold had informed his father of the second big haul he had made that season . As before , Mr. Bennington -- but with some additional cautions -- told his son to keep the money he had made . `` The sick man is in a peck of trouble this morning , '' added the landlord of the Cliff House , when the exciting business of the occasion had been disposed of . `` What 's the matter of him ? ''