six o'clock
`` Your niggers ai n't every body 's , '' he concludes . `` Try it , try it ! '' Mrs. Rosebrook rejoins : `` Go home and propound something that will relieve us from fear-something that will prepare us for any crisis that may occur ! '' It was six o'clock , the plantation bell struck , and the cry sounded `` All hands quit work , and repair to supper ! '' Scarcely had the echoes resounded over the woods when the labourers were seen scampering for their cabins , in great glee . They jumped , danced , jostled one another , and sang the cheering melodies , `` Sally put da ' hoe cake down ! '' and `` Down in Old Tennessee . ''