six o'clock in the
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`` Keep on the lookout for some hill or other elevation , where we can get a good view of the neighborhood ! '' he told them , remembering former occasions when they had adopted a similar method for seeing operations . It was late in the day by now . They had come at a tremendous pace over scores and scores of miles , since that start at six o'clock in the morning . Along about two in the afternoon Josh had declared that his cyclometer was marking the hundred-and-fifty mark since beginning the day 's run , which was a pretty good spin , all things considered . Thanks to the excellent French highways , and the fact that they had met with no accident to detain them , this record could be hung up as one of which any fellow might be proud . It would be utterly impossible to describe all they saw while on that wonderful day 's run .