midnight
What if it wuz the Babe ! Oh , that villian ; may the Lord punish him ! '' And that is jest the way I sot , and wept , and cried , and cried and wept . You see , the way it wuz , there wuz a sweet little girl , only ten years old , decoyed by a lyin ' excuse from her warm , cosey home at midnight by a villian , and took through the snowy , icy streets to her doom . Her little cold body wuz found in an empty old barn , and her destroyer , her murderer , had fled . But men wuz on his tracts , the hull country wuz roused , and they wuz huntin ' him down , as if he wuz a wild animal , as indeed he wuz . But anon , as I read the paper over again , I see these words -- `` The man was intoxicated . ''