three in the afternoon
During the afternoon he became impatient of its weight and threw it away . But he thirsted often . More than once he drank from small streams over which the highway builders had made small concrete bridges . At three in the afternoon a truck came up from behind . Here he trudged between steep cliffs which made him seem almost a midget . The highway went through a crevice between adjoining mountainsides . There was no place for him to conceal himself .