nine o'clock
`` Gentlemen , there 's a pig loose here . '' `` One o ' Link 's jokes , I reckon . '' `` But that 's Sanford 's writin ' . An ' here it is nine o'clock , and no one round . I do n't like the looks of it , myself . '' The crowd thickened ; the fellows came out of the blacksmith shop , while the jokers in the barber shop smote their knees and yelled with merriment . `` What 's up ? ''