eighteen minutes past nine
`` What time is it ? '' `` Half-past nine . '' `` Well , that 's just about what I 'd figured . I 've been fishin ' in this ` hole ' for something like forty years , off and on , and I 've found out that these here sunfish get through breakfast at exactly eighteen minutes past nine . I always allow about ten minutes ' leeway in case one or two of 'em might have been out late the night before or something , -- but as a general thing they 're pretty dog-goned prompt for breakfast . Specially in August . Even a fish is lazy in August .