about four in the afternoon
Even Theodora and Ellen could skate . For a week that fall Lake Pennesseewassee was grand skating ground . Parties of boys from a distance came there every evening and built bonfires on the shore to enliven the scene . I think that it was the third day before Thanksgiving that eight of us went to the lake , at about four in the afternoon , to have an hour of skating before dark . We found Alfred Batchelder there in advance of us . As Alfred did not now speak to our boys , he kept a little aloof from us . Near the head of the lake is an island and above it a bog .