midnight
`` D'ye know McShane ? '' he asked . `` Aye , middlin ' . '' `` Ax ` im what Hughie Thornton towld ` im wan night be th ' hour ov midnight an ' afther . Ax ` im , I say , an ' he 'll swear be th ' Holy Virgin an ' St. Peether t ' it ! '' `` Jist tell us aanyway , Hughie , '' Anna urged and the beggar-man proceeded . `` I was be th ' oul Quaker graveyard be Moylena wan night whin th ' shadows fell an ' bein ' more tired than most I slipt in an ' lay down be th ' big wall t ' slape .