midnight
Mr. Esop put out the lights in his pavilion ; and the Arabians mounted their camels and rode slowly toward Bagdad , first making the Sultana promise to tell them a story that would last through the whole Arabian Night . The Wonderlanders put on their queer bonnets and coats , all carefully wrong side out ; and the Man Friday hoisted his umbrella to keep the dew off Robinson Crusoe ; and Doctor Gulliver put all the Lilliputians he could catch into his overcoat pocket ; and Mother Goose flew away with all her family into the night . The little people from the North were the last to get away , for it took them a long time to get on their overshoes and fur coats and mufflers , but at last they too had gone . -LSB- Illustration : _ A long time to get on their overshoes _ -RSB- -LSB- Illustration : _ Closed her eyes _ -RSB- `` I see by the moonlight that it 's almost midnight , '' said the spider . `` It 's time for little girls to go to sleep . '' Little Miss Muffet closed her eyes very tightly indeed , but she did n't close her ears , so she heard the first tinkle of sleigh-bells far away , and she knew that Santa Claus was coming . -LSB- Illustration -RSB-