midnight
`` Yes . '' He regarded Bryant keenly . `` Say , what you need is n't information but sleep . You worked all day yesterday , and all last night , and to-day again , and here it is going on midnight . I 'm going to tell you the schedule for to-morrow to calm your mind , then you roll into your blankets . At nine o'clock in the morning all hands except the cooks go at the drills and stay by them till the stretch is holed . Whenever that 's done , which should be about evening , we shoot the chunk .