ten o'clock
`` If that bear is there to-day I would n't take a dollar for my chance of shooting him . One bullet and three loads of buckshot will be more than he can carry away with him . Here are the axes to build the trap with , if we do n't find him on the island ; there 's a bag of corn for bait , an auger to bore the holes and the pins with which to fasten the logs together . Bert and I worked in the shop last night until ten o'clock , making those pins . I think we have everything we wa n't , so we 'll be off . '' The canoe having been hauled alongside the wharf , and the articles which Don had enumerated being packed away in it , the hounds jumped in and curled themselves up in the bow , David took his place at the oars and the brothers found comfortable seats in the stern . Altogether it was a heavy load the little boat had to carry , and she was so deep in the water that her gunwales were scarcely three inches above the surface ; but there were never any heavy seas to be encountered in that little lake , and so there was no danger to be apprehended .