midnight
That island is ten miles from the nearest other land . We 're not out for a pleasure junket , but for three months of the hardest kind of hard work . There 'll be no automobiling , no pool or cards or moving pictures . It means being up at midnight , and not getting to bed until the fish have been taken care of . It means sore fingers and lame backs and aching joints . It means standing wind and cold and fog and rain until you 're tired and wet and chilled to the bone . It 's a dead-earnest business out there , one hundred days of it , and every day has got to count .