an hour after midnight
`` Call dat speed -- wait till us ` cumulates mah mascot goat . Den us heats up dem C.O.D. dice , an ' Ah shows you what me an ' Lady Luck kin do when de speed bell rings . You ai n't seed no speed yet ! '' Leaving Portland an hour after midnight , the deadhead Wildcat sat in the smoking room of the Mud Turtle 's San Francisco bound Pullman . The Passengers were in bed . On the window end of the leather seat , shivering himself out of a coating of Columbia river mud which he had accumulated that afternoon during the smelt harvest , was the Mud Turtle . `` Boy , dem shivers is workin ' overtime .