nine o'clock
`` Heah , you kin look ovah last week 's paper tell the men folks gits in . We air mighty proud o ' that paper . It 's the fust evah printed in Kaintuck . Mason an ' Henry sets up tell nigh onto nine o'clock readin ' it , the fust night aftah it comes . It 's printed at Lexi n'ton by John Bradford . He usetah live out heah , but , ten or twelve year ago , he moved intah Lexi n'ton an ' started up the ` Gazette , ' an ' I reckon it 's ` bout the fines ' paper whut evah wuz ; leastways , it makes mighty fine trimmin 's fur the cup ` od shelves . '' When his garrulous hostess had departed , Dudley , instead of reading the paper , looked about him .