About twelve o'clock
I will not even request so much as that ; give me something to eat , and my passage to Charleston , and you may do what you please with the vessel , but I shall deliver the papers to nobody but the persons who shipped me . And I shall want you to see this little boy attended to , for he 's quite sick now , '' said the captain , pointing to Tommy , and calling him to him . `` Oh yes , '' replied the young man , `` we 'll take care of the little fellow , and see him sent safely back , '' and took leave , promising to have another interview in the afternoon . About twelve o'clock a negro boy came to the vessel with a tin pan covered with a towel , and presenting it to Cesar , for `` massa cap ` en and buckra boy . '' Cesar brought it aft and set it upon the companion . It contained some rice , a piece of bacon , corn-cake , and three sweet-potatoes . `` Coarse fare , but I can get along with it .