eight o'clock
`` That maketh me feel very thad , Buthter , '' replied Tommy sarcastically . Breakfast was prepared and eaten in record time that morning . Then the dishes were speedily washed and put away . The Tramp Club 's camp showed no activity until after eight o'clock , when the smoke from their cook fire was observed curling up through the foliage on the shore of the Island of Delight . A long-drawn `` Hoo-oo-oo '' from the camp told the girls that they had been observed by some of the boys . Before nine o'clock the launch put out and sailed rapidly over to the `` Red Rover . '' `` We did n't come to call .