midnight
`` I mind as well as though it was yesterday th ' struggle iv me father f ' r to keep Lent . He began to talk it a month befure th ' time . ` On Ash Winsdah , ' he 'd say , ` I 'll go in f ' r a rale season iv fast an ' abstinince , ' he 'd say . An ' sure enough , whin Ash Winsdah come round at midnight , he 'd take a long dhraw at his pipe an ' knock th ' ashes out slowly again his heel , an ' thin put th ' dhudeen up behind th ' clock . ` There , ' says he , ` there ye stay till Easter morn , ' he says . Ash Winsdah he talked iv nawthin but th ' pipe . `` Tis exthraordinney how easy it is f ' r to lave off , ' he says .