about half past nine o'clock
`` Oh , I wo n't have time to get in mischief , '' laughed Randy . `` It will take all day to write my log book up to date . I have n't touched it since night before last . '' It was about half past nine o'clock when the boys started . They paddled across the creek and landed at the foot of the hill . Randy accompanied them in the Water Sprite , so that he could tow the canoe back with him . `` Just you fellows sing out , '' he said .