midnight
But that do n't he ' p none . After the dust Enright paws up has settled , thar 's Mike still , all quiled up in the Wolfville lap . `` Thar 's a worse feachure , the same bein ' Mike 's wife . She 's as young , an ' mighty nigh as lovely , too , as Nell ; only she 's blind , this yere Mike 's girl wife is , blind as any midnight mole . Besides her , an ' a armful of paint breshes an ' pictures , about all Mike 's got in the way of plunder is a ten-dollar bill . If it 's only Mike , we-all might have thickened our hides a heap , an ' let him go jumpin ' sideways for his daily grub , same as other folks . But girls must be fed , speshully blind ones .