nine o'clock
Jest say it over and over till you go to sleep , and while you 're sleepin ' , I 'll look after the children . ' `` I did n't have much faith in my own remedy , but she minded me like a child mindin ' its mother ; and , sure enough , when I tiptoed up-stairs an hour or so after that , I found her fast asleep . Her mother and her sister Sally come while she was still sleepin ' , and I left for home , feelin ' that she was in good hands . `` That night about half-past nine o'clock I went outdoors and set down on the porch steps in the dark , as I always do jest before bedtime . That 's been one o ' my ways ever since I was a child . Abram used to say he had known me to forgit my prayers many a night , but he never knew me to forgit to go outdoors and look up at the sky . If there was a moon , or if the stars was shinin ' , I 'd stay out and wander around in the gyarden till he 'd come out after me ; and if it was cloudy , I 'd set there and feel safe in the darkness as in the light .