nine o'clock
` So his name 's Hancock , ' he soliloquized , when he got into the street . ` I knew a girl of that name -- once . I 'll go and have a pint of four-half . ' At nine o'clock that night Darkey was still consuming four-half , and relating certain adventures by sea which , he averred , had happened to himself . He was very drunk . ` Yes , ' he said , ` and them five lil ' gals was lying there without a stitch on 'em , dead as meat ; 's ` true as I 'm ` ere . I 've seen a thing or two in my time , I can tell ye . '