nine o'clock
I hoped I should hear somebody or ` nother comin ' along the road , and then I heard somethin' a rus ` lin ' amongst the sunflowers and hollyhocks , and then there was a titterin ' , and come to find out 't was that young one . I chased her up the road till my wind give out , and I had to go and set on the stone wall , and come to . She wo n't go to bed till she 's a mind to . One night I was up there this spring , and she never come in until after nine o'clock , a dark night , too ; and the pore old lady was in distress , and thought she 'd got into the river . I says to myself there wa 'n' t no such good news . She told how she 'd be 'n up into Jake an ' Martin 's oaks , trying to catch a little screech owl . She belongs with wild creatur 's , I do believe , -- just the same natur ' .