noon
On such occasions there is no sleep f ' r th ' modhren sojer . Napolyon wud 've gone to bed but slumber niver crost me tired eyelids . 'T was six o'clock whin we cashed in an ' each wint to th ' mournful jooties iv th ' day , silently but with a heart full iv courage . At high noon , we fell upon th ' inimy an ' poored out about eighty-five thousan ' dollars worth iv near-slaughter on him . His guns was choked with cotillyon favors an ' he did not reply at wanst , but whin he did , th ' scene was thruly awful . Th ' sky was blackened be th ' smoke iv smokeless powdher an ' th ' air was full iv cotton waste fr 'm th ' fell injines iv desthruction . A breeze fr 'm shore carried out to me ears th ' wails iv th ' wounded tax payers .