nine o'clock
`` Have you seen ` Zekiel Pettengill this morning ? '' asked Quincy . `` No , nor I did n't expect to , '' replied Uncle Ike . `` I suppose he went to Boston on the nine o'clock train and will be back on the three o'clock express . '' `` Mr. Pettengill , '' said Quincy , `` can you give me fifteen minutes ' time for a talk ? '' `` Well , '' said Uncle Ike , looking at his watch , `` it will be half an hour before Cobb 's twins will be down here with the team , and I might as well listen to you as sit around and do nothing . They are coming down again by and by to get the chickens .