nine
o'clock in the morning
If I was apprenticed I should have to start at six o'clock in the morning and work just like the men . I would stay in one shop for seven years and be turned out an expert mechanic . And I would have to wait six months for an opening , as they were full-up . If I came as a pupil , however , I would be allowed to spend so much time in each shop , including the offices ; I could start at nine o'clock in the morning and finish the whole business in three years . The premium was nine hundred dollars , and I could start that minute . They did n't seem to care how soon they got that nine hundred dollars . `` We talked it over in the train .