nine o'clock
it must be the brownie . ' She was so frightened she dared scarcely move a foot , but at last the cook plucked up courage and went down into the kitchen , closely followed by Stine . When they opened the kitchen door they found all the crockery on the floor , but none of it broken , while the brownie was standing on the big kitchen table with his red cap on , and hurling one dish after the other on to the floor , and laughing in great glee . The cook had heard that the brownies could sometimes be tricked into moving into another house when anybody would tell them of a very quiet place , and as she long had been wishing for an opportunity to play a trick upon this brownie , she took courage and spoke to him , -- her voice was a little shaky at the time , -- that he ought to remove to the tinman 's over the way , where it was so very quiet and pleasant , because they always went to bed at nine o'clock every evening ; which was true enough , as the cook told Stine later , but then the master and all his apprentices and journeymen were up every morning at three o'clock and hammered away and made a terrible noise all day . Since that day they have not seen the brownie any more at the captain 's . He seemed to feel quite at home at the tinman 's , although they were hammering and tapping away there all day ; but people said that the gude-wife put a dish of porridge up in the garret for him every Thursday evening , and it 's no wonder that they got on well and became rich when they had a brownie in the house . Stine believed he brought things to them .