midnight
`` Dear Old Man , '' it said , `` will be back on the afternoon you receive this . Will hit the town on the three o'clock boat . Get seats for the best show going -- my treat -- and arrange to assimilate nutriment at the Poodle Dog -- also mine . I 've got miles of talk in me that I 've got to reel off before midnight . Yours . `` JERRY . '' `` I 've got a stand of horns for you , Ross , that are Glory Hallelujah . ''