nine o'clock in the morning
`` Say , what you need is n't information but sleep . You worked all day yesterday , and all last night , and to-day again , and here it is going on midnight . I 'm going to tell you the schedule for to-morrow to calm your mind , then you roll into your blankets . At nine o'clock in the morning all hands except the cooks go at the drills and stay by them till the stretch is holed . Whenever that 's done , which should be about evening , we shoot the chunk . And after that we hit the bottom with every scraper and fresno and horse and man , with the cooks fighting the coffee-boilers , and never come out of the ditch till the last lump of dirt is moved . That 's the programme .