nine o’clock
Sturdy island boats of the larger size , boats with bluff bows and bulging sides , brave it under their smallest lugs . But lesser boats , and especially light pleasure crafts like the Tortoise do well to lie snug at their moorings till the southeasterly wind has spent its strength . Timothy Sweeny , J. P. , as suited a man of portly figure and civic dignity , was accustomed to lie long in his bed of a morning . On weekdays he rose , in a bad temper , at nine o'clock . On Sundays , when he washed and shaved , he was half an hour later and his temper was worse . An apprentice took down the shutters of the shop on weekdays at half past nine . By that time Sweeny , having breakfasted , sworn at his wife and abused his children , was ready to enter upon the duties of his calling .