twelve
o'clock
But all unknown to these good people , the divinities were at that moment very busy . That was the 26th of May , 1835 , a date of much importance in the calendar of the Traylors . It had been a clear , warm day , followed by a cloudless , starry night , with a chilly breeze blowing . Between eleven and twelve o'clock Sarah and Samson were awakened by the hoot of an owl in the dooryard . In a moment they heard three taps on a window-pane . They knew what it meant . Both got out of bed and into their clothes as quickly as possible .