twelve
o'clock
`` The first day av the month to come . An ' they 're telling me it catches everybody , down to the missinger b ` ys in the of ` ces . '' Griggs got upon his feet , yawning and stretching before he dropped back into his corner of the wooden settle . `` You lissen at me : if that 's the fact , I 'm tellin ' you-all that every wheel on this blame ' , hoodooed railroad is goin ' to stop turnin ' at twelve o'clock on the night before that notice takes hold . '' An oil-begrimed wiper crawled from under the 1031 , spat at the dope-bucket and flung his bunch of waste therein . `` Gur-r-r ! Let 'em stop , '' he rasped .