one o'clock
To hear us talk , a person would think that we was born sixty years old . ' Says he : ` All we 've lost is an hour 's sleep , and we can make that up by goin ' to bed earlier to-morrow night . Now , why not overlook this little caper of Martin Luther 's and begin the new year in a good humor with everything and everybody ? ' `` And Sam Amos he begun to laugh , and he laughed till he had to set down , and he kept on till Milly got skeered and beat him in the back to make him stop , and finally he got his breath and says he , ` I 'm laughin ' to think how we all looked settin ' here at one o'clock in the mornin ' waitin ' to hear the clock strike twelve . ' And then he started out again , and we laughed with him , and everybody went home in a good humor . I ricollect me and Abram had an argument on the way home about whether it was worth while to go to bed or not . Abram said it was worth while to go to bed if you could n't sleep but a half-hour , but betwixt laughin ' and ridin ' in the cold air I was so wide awake I felt like I never wanted to sleep again ; and I went to work and cleaned up the house and cut out some sewin ' and had breakfast ready by half-past four .