midnight
He is a nice dog and he jumped off the train 'cause he likes me ! '' And , just as Margy picked up the dog in her arms , a woman thrust her head out of one of the windows of the moving train and screamed . The dog began to bark , the engine of the train whistled , the woman with her head out of the car window kept on screaming , and the conductor , standing out on the platform , shouted something , though no one could tell what it was . `` It sounded , '' said Daddy Bunker , afterward , `` like that Mother Goose story , where the fire begins to burn the stick , the stick begins to beat the dog , the dog begins to chase the pig and the old lady got home before midnight . '' `` What is the matter ? '' asked Cousin Tom , who had stopped greeting the six little Bunkers to look at Margy and the dog , and listen to the screaming of the woman on the train . No one seemed to know , but , suddenly , the engine whistled loudly once , and then the train came to a stop .