11 o'clock
`` I ` low I just got to talk to them like folks , '' he decided at last , and with that comforting decision went to sleep . The first thing , after dawn , when he looked out upon the river in all the glory of sunshine and soft atmosphere and young birds , he heard a hail : `` Eh , Prophet ! What time yo ' all goin ' to hold the meeting ? '' `` Round 10 or 11 o'clock , '' he replied . Rasba went to one of the boats for breakfast , and he was surprised when Mamie Caope asked him to invoke a blessing on their humble meal of hot-bread , sorghum , fried pork chops , oatmeal , fried spuds , percolator coffee , condensed cream , nine-inch perch caught that morning , and some odds and ends of what she called `` leavings . '' Then the women all went over on his big mission boat and cleaned things up , declaring that men folks did n't know how to keep their own faces clean , let alone houseboats . They scrubbed and mopped and re-arranged , and every time Rasba appeared they splashed so much that he was obliged to escape .