three-hour's

Updated: June 8, 2025

In the saddle from daylight till dark, riding completely down to the last jump in them two or three horses a day, it never occurred to him even to growl when a stormy night, with thunder and lightning, prolonged his customary three-hour's turn at night guard round the herd to an all-night's vigil. He took it as a matter of course.

Edgar Beecher Bronson - The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier