about eleven o'clock
Caleb gave each of them a few matches and this parting word : `` I 'll stay here till you come back . I 'll keep up a fire , and toward sundown I 'll make a smoke with rotten wood and grass so you kin find your way back . Remember , steer by the sun ; keep your main lines of travel ; do n't try to remember trees and mudholes ; and if you get lost , you make _ two smokes _ well apart and stay right there and holler every once in awhile ; some one will be sure to come . '' So about eleven o'clock the boys set out eagerly . As they were going Blackhawk called to the others , `` First to carry out his job wins a _ grand coup _ ! '' `` Let the three leaders stake their scalps , '' said the Woodpecker . `` All right .