twelve o'clock
I know how sick it made me once . '' `` I did ; but more were stolen next night . I ca n't afford to medicate the whole village . Last night I sat up to watch till twelve o'clock , when mother made me go to bed . '' `` I 'll watch to-night , '' said Arthur , `` and give 'em a lesson with a good load of beans from the old shotgun . '' `` It would n't pay , '' replied his father . `` I concluded last night that all the melons in the world were n't worth a night 's sleep .