about five o'clock
That 's saying something these days . '' This remark was made because the Count , while showing a polite interest in the _ Gitchie Manitou _ , had not bubbled over with exuberance . The boys felt somewhat chagrined over this lack of enthusiasm until they recalled that to young Zept an airship was an old story , the young man having witnessed many flights by the most improved French monoplanes . On this , the second day of the Stampede , about five o'clock Norman made a respectable if not very exciting flight . He was somewhat nervous and was glad when the exhibition was over , and had no sooner landed than he determined on the following day to attempt a more ambitious demonstration . On Wednesday and Thursday he added some thrills to his evening flight , making on the latter evening a landing in the shape of a corkscrew spiral that got for him special notice in the newspapers the next morning . It also got for him an admonition from his father , when the latter read this story , that a repetition of it would result in a breaking of his contract with the Stampede authorities .