nine o'clock
That 's the way I 've always thought of it . But lately I 've begun to get the Yankee notion about whisky . When it gets into bad company it can raise the devil . '' Soon after nine o'clock Abe drew a mattress filled with corn husks from under the counter , cleared away the bolts of cloth and laid it where they had been and covered it with a blanket . `` This is my bed , '' said he . `` I 'll be up at five in the morning . Then I 'll be making tea here by the fireplace to wash down some jerked meat and a hunk o ' bread .