about seven o'clock
`` This 'll be good . '' `` I remember once when I was ridin ' for the Two-bar Cross bunch an ' we had four thousand head of cattle on the range . ` Long about December , when the first snow starts , me an ' Joe Heldig was sent out to see how the bunch was makin ' out , and if they needed anything , one of us was to ride back an ' tell the rest while the other watched . Well , we set out about seven o'clock one morning to see if we could spot the herd . `` It was clear an ' cold when we started . Not a cloud in the sky . Thinks I , we 're pretty lucky , havin ' such fine weather ; that late in the season , too .