midnight
There were also sweets in waiting for him when he came out of the ring . Thus went the endless round . Here to-day and there to-morrow . In the evening a magic city of white tents would be seen upon the grounds , but by midnight all had been stowed away in four or five long trains , which soon were thundering over the rails to a distant city , where for the past three weeks posters had announced the coming of the circus . Thus the days and weeks of Black Bruin 's second year in the circus passed and they concluded the season at Nashville , Tennessee . Then all the paraphernalia was loaded with even more care than usual , for they were off for the long trip northward , to their winter quarters . That night when they loaded the elephants and the trick-ponies , some of them hung back and refused to board the train , a tendency most unusual on their part ; but they finally obeyed the goad and lash and all were stowed away in their customary places .