a quarter before
twelve
Needless to say , I also hung my saddle and bridle along with the saddle-bags . It was nearly seven before I started , and about ten before I reached the hiding-place of my knapsack . I found it , of course , quite easily , shouldered it , and toiled on towards the statues . At a quarter before twelve I reached them , and almost beside myself as I was , could not refrain from some disappointment at finding them a good deal smaller than I expected . My father , correcting the measurement he had given in his book , said he thought that they were about four or five times the size of life ; but really I do not think they were more than twenty feet high , any one of them . In other respects my father 's description of them is quite accurate . There was no wind , and as a matter of course , therefore , they were not chanting .