nine o'clock
In a minute I heard him call : '' ` Say , Uncle Bowlin , I 'm goin ' to get up an ' eat you out o ' house and home . I 'm hungry and I feel like a new man . What time is it ? ' '' ` It 'll be nine o'clock by the time you 're washed and dressed , ' I says . '' ` Well , I declare , ' says he , ` I 've had about sixteen hours o ' solid sleep . The world looks better to me this morning . ' `` He hurried into his clothes and we sat down at the table with the steak and the chicken and some wild grape jelly and baked potatoes , with new butter and toffee and cream and hot biscuit and clover honey , and say , we both et till we was ashamed of it .