nine o'clock
`` Jes kase 't was no use , '' answered Berry . `` Wall , yer know , I left h ` yer ` bout two hours ob de sun , an ' I pushes on right peart , kase it 's a smart step ober ter Rufe 's , ennyhow , an ' I wanted ter see him an ' git back ter help Nimbus in de crap ob a Monday . Sally hed fixed me up a bite o ' bread an ' a piece o ' meat , an ' I ` llowed I 'd jes stop in some piney ole-field when I got tired , eat my snack , go ter sleep , an ' start fresh afo ' daylight in de mornin ' for de rest ob de way . I 'd been a wukkin ' right peart in de new-ground dat day , an ' when I got ter dat pine thicket jes past de spring by de Brook 's place , ` twixt de Haw Ribber an ' Stony Fork , ` long ` bout nine o'clock I reckon , I wuz dat done out dat I jes takes a drink at de spring , eats a bite o ' bread an ' meat , hunts a close place under de pines , an ' goes ter sleep right away . `` Yer knows dar 's a smart open place dar , whar dey used ter hev de ole muster-ground . 'T was de time ob de full moon , an ' when I woke up a-hearin ' somethin' , an ' kind o ' peeped out under de pine bushes , I t ` ought at fust dat it was de ghostesses ob de ole chaps dat hed come back ter muster dar , sure ` nough . Dey war n't more 'n ten steps away from me , an ' de boss man , he sot wid his back to me in dat rock place what dey calls de Lubber 's Cheer .