about two o'clock
` That Irish girl would tear hair like a mountain cat , ' continued Mike serenely . ` You 're wrong , Mike , quite wrong , ' said Jim impressively . ` This girl is -- well , absolutely different . ' Done found the trip to Boobyalla very much longer than he had expected , but the mates reached the homestead at about two o'clock . The place was almost deserted . Two or three wolfish cattle-dogs ran from the huts , and barked at them in a half hearted kind of way ; a black boy shouted from the shed , and two gins came to the kitchen door , watching them . On the shady side of the same structure a dilapidated , miserable-looking white man of about fifty lay in a drunken sleep , buzzed over by a swarm of flies .