twelve o'clock at night
`` Well ? '' `` Yes , sar , what the constable sez is quite true , sar ; I was dar , sar . '' `` Oh , so you admit it ? And what were you doing with a sack , pray , in Deacon Abraham 's poultry-yard at twelve o'clock at night ? '' `` I ` se gwine ter tell yer , sar ; yes , sar . I 'd been to Massa Jordan 's wid a sack of melons . Yes , sar ; an ' Massa Jordan he wuz very ` greeable , an ' axed me for ter come in . ''