midnight
I 've read enough Western stuff to know that a herd always makes noise . Yes , even at night . The cowhands would n't have lost a wink of sleep over that . But , listen , Tema , suppose you lived in New York City near some busy intersection which was always noisy , even after midnight -- and all the noise suddenly stopped . Would you sleep right on through it ? '' `` No , I 'd wake up -- unless I were drunk or doped . '' `` Yet nobody seems to have wakened at that ranch when -- and it must have happened -- the herd stopped making any noise whatever .