nine P.M.
This express company is a common carrier , under the Interstate Commerce Law , and it can not refuse to take this package , spelling or no spelling . That is the law ! '' `` I have no quarrel with th ' intercommerce state law , Mr. Warold , sir , '' said Flannery with dignity , `` and 't is none of my business , sir . But th ' spellin ' of th ' English language is , for ' t is my duty by gineral order number sivin hunderd and noineteen t ' spell three hundred worrds with th ' proper simplification , and spell thim I will , and so will all that does business with Mike Flannery from sivin A.M. till nine P.M. Worrds that is not in th ' three hunderd ye may spell as ye please , Mr. Warold , for there be no rule agin it , and in conversation or correspondince with Mike Flannery , before th ' hour av sivin and after th ' hour av nine , ye may spell as ye please , and I will do th ' same , for thin I am off duty ; but durin ' th ' office hours th ' whole dang list from ` abridgment ' t ' ` wrapt ' must be spelled accordin ' t ' orders . Yis , sir , ` polyp ' and ` dactyl ' and th ' whole rist av thim . So tek th ' package an ' change th ' address like a good man . '' Mr. Warold glared at Flannery , and then turned to the door .