about eleven o'clock
` O ' course , ' agreed Chippy . ` Wheer 's discipline if so be as everybody can do as he 's a mind ? ' That morning the brother scouts enjoyed an experience which gave them keener pleasure than perhaps anything else which happened during their journey . It began about eleven o'clock , when they were following a country road upon which hamlets , and even houses , were very far apart . They were approaching the foot of a very steep hill , when the Raven 's eyes , always on the watch , as a scout 's eyes should be , caught a gleam of something glittering in a great bed of weeds beside the road . He stopped , parted the weeds with his staff , and disclosed a broken bicycle , diamond-framed , lying on its side . It was the bright nickelled handle-bar which had caught his eye .