twelve
o'clock
`` I do . You shall have the twenty-one shillings in the shinplasters of the republic . '' The colonel had been routed none too soon . The very next morning , when the Caribees `` fell in '' for roll-call , the orderly received a paper from the commander 's orderly which read , `` Tents to be struck at twelve o'clock and the men ready to march , with ten days ' rations . '' At last ! All the future , glowing with heroism , exciting with the march , the attack , the battle -- ah ! what after ?