nine o'clock
`` That was easy . We bought an old bedtick and stuffed it with corn husks , then a pair of back-number bed-springs , which we put on the floor of the cabin . Sleep ! We used to tie up nights and sleep from nine o'clock until sunrise . `` With the money we had left we bought bacon , eggs , corn-meal , flour , butter and coffee . There was n't much of it , because we had little money left , but we thought we might get fish on the way down . We never got one .