nearly eleven o'clock
At last , after losing half an hour there , we went on without him ; Addison now shook the salt dish ahead , and I , brandishing a long stick , kept stragglers from lagging in the rear . Three persons are needed to drive a flock of a hundred sheep ; but we saw no way except to go on and do the best we could . Now that it was light , the sky looked as if a storm were at hand . The storm did not reach us until nearly eleven o'clock , however ; we had got as far as the town of Albany before the first flakes began to fall . Then Old Peg made trouble . Leaving the barn and going off so far was against all her ideas of propriety , and now that a snowstorm had set in she was certain that something or other was wrong . She looked this way and that , sometimes turning completely round to look at the road .