About midnight
` But , ' says the Lift ` nint , ` since 't is a speshil case , I 'll make an excepshin . We 'll visit this Lungtungpen to-night . ' `` The bhoys was fairly woild wid deloight whin I tould 'em ; an ' , by this an ' that , they wint through the jungle like buck-rabbits . About midnight we come to the shtrame which I had clane forgot to minshin to my orficer . I was on , ahead , wid four bhoys , an ' I thought that the Lift ` nint might want to theourise . ` Shtrip boys ! ' sez I. ` Shtrip to the buff , an ' shwim in where glory waits ! '