midnight
Jimmie thought this a place for optimism , and decided to try it on the low-browed chap who was rather rudely forcing him along . `` I was just thinking of going down to see your camp , '' he said with a grin , `` but I did n't know the way exactly . I 'm glad you happened along . I 've got the left hind foot of a rabbit that was caught by a black cat at midnight , in the dark of the moon , in a negro cemetery , on the grave of a black man who was hanged for murder . Guess that 's brought me luck . '' `` You 'll need four rabbits ' feet if you get out of this , '' Jack grumbled . `` Suppose we take a quick hike for the boat , right now ? ''