nine o'clock
` I 'll alum ye ! ' says I , and I did . I alummed him out o ' my shop with a pestle . If there 'd been one there 'd been twenty between opening and nine o'clock . ` George , ' I says to my apprentice , ` shut shop up . My old friend John Baines is going to his long home to-day , and I 'll close . I 've had enough o ' alum for one day . ' ''