midnight
This seemed so indisputable that I did not venture to contradict it . `` I bai n't clear about thicky wreck . Likely as not 't was the one I seed all yesterday tacking about : and if so be as I be right , a pretty lot of lubbers she must have had aboard . Jonathan , the coast-guard , came down to Lizard Town this morning , and said he seed a big vessel nigh under the cliffs toward midnight , or fancied he seed her : but fustly Jonathan 's a buffle-head , and secondly 't was pitch-dark ; so if as he swears there were n't no blue light , ` tai n't likely any man could see , let alone a daft fule like Jonathan . But , there , ` tai n't no good for to blame he ; durn Government ! say I , for settin ' one man , and him a born fule , to mind seven mile o ' coast on a night when an airey mouse cou ` dn ' see his hand afore his face . '' `` What was the vessel like , Joe , that you saw ? ''