nine o'clock
I 'll chop you up as fine as mince meat , you villain , said he , if ever I catch you inside my door agin ; mind what I tell you , `` YOU 'LL SWING FOR IT YET . '' Well , he made himself considerable scarce arter that , he never sot foot inside the door agin , and I thought he had ginn up all hopes of Sall , and she of him ; when one night , a most particular uncommon dark night , as I was a comin home from neighbor Dearborne 's , I heerd some one a talkin under Sall 's window . Well , I stops and listens , and who should be near the ash saplin , but Jim Munroe , a tryin to persuade Sall to run off with him to Rhode Island to be married . It was all settled , he should come with a horse and shay to the gate , and then help her out of the window , jist at nine o'clock , about the time she commonly went to bed . Then he axes her to reach down her hand for him to kiss , -LRB- for he was proper clever at soft sawder -RRB- and she stretches it down and he kisses it ; and , says he , I believe I must have the whole of you out arter all , and gives her a jirk that kinder startled her ; it came so sudden like it made her scream ; so off he sot hot foot , and over the gate in no time . Well , I cyphered over this all night , a calculatin how I should reciprocate that trick with him , and at last I hit on a scheme . I recollected father 's words at partin , `` MIND WHAT I TELL YOU , YOU 'LL SWING FOR IT YET ; '' and thinks I , friend Jim , I 'll make that prophecy come true yet , I guess .