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`` What 's the use ? It will be five long hours before it will be light enough to hunt them up ; and we might as well go to sleep . '' `` I 'm afraid we shall sleep too long , '' said Archie , again , `` and that some one will beat us . '' `` No fear of that , '' answered Frank ; `` I 'll wake you up at three o'clock . '' And he turned over and arranged his pillow , and in a few moments was fast asleep . But Archie was so excited that he found it difficult even to lie still ; and he lay awake almost two hours , thinking of the sport they should have in the morning , and at last dropped into an unquiet slumber . It seemed to him that he had hardly closed his eyes , when a strong hand was laid on his shoulder , and a voice said , in his ear , `` Wake up here ; it 's three o'clock . ''