nine o'clock
Suppose I send back word that a rich step-uncle has promised to leave him a ton of coal if we call the baby Ebenezer after him ? '' Vee chuckles . `` Oh , no doubt she 'll forget all about it by morning , '' says she . Seems we 'd just begun hearin ' from the outside districts , though , or else they 'd been savin ' up their ideas for this particular afternoon and evenin ' ; for between then and nine o'clock no less 'n half a dozen different parties dropped in , every last one of 'em with a name to register . And their contributions ranged all the way from Aaron to Xury . There were two rooters for Woodrow and one for Pershing . Some of the neighbors were real serious about it .