Midnight
I 'd got everything planned and right . I ` ired a little trap in Colchester , and pretended I wanted to go to Ipswich and stop the night , and come back next day , and the chap I ` ired it from made me leave two sovrings on it right away , and off I set . `` I did n't go to no Ipswich neither . `` Midnight the ` orse and trap was ` itched by the little road that ran by the cottage where ' e lived -- not sixty yards off , it was n't -- and I was at it like a good ` un . It was jest the night for such games -- overcast -- but a trifle too ` ot , and all round the sky there was summer lightning and presently a thunderstorm . Down it came . First big drops in a sort of fizzle , then ` ail .