midnight
Why should a burglar hump himself on his hands and knees in a truck patch and stop to scratch his ear ? `` Hey , you ! '' I sings out real crisp . Maybe that ai n't quite the way to open a line of chat with a midnight marauder . I 've been kidded about it some since ; but at the time it sounded all right . And it had the proper effect . He comes up on his toes with his hands in the air , like he was worked by springs .