about one o'clock
If in the night I hear three loud raps , one after the other , I am then sartan there is goen to be a death ; and if there is more than three then I knows there is goen to be more 'n one death . If the raps are loud and sharp , then I know the death or deaths are to be right away ; but if they be kind of easy like , I then know it will be quite a while . Now , I hearn three raps last night . I was awakened about one o'clock . I knoo it was one , 'cause I had the rheumatiz so bad I could n't sleep , and so I got up and went to the fire to keep warm . I thought I would put my horn to my ear , and I jest caught the faintest sound of the roosters crowin ' ; so when I hearn that I knoo what time it was . Jest a little after that I went back to bed , and I had n't been there more 'n a minute of two before I hearn a rap , and then , in a little , I hearn another , and then another ; they sounded far away like , and awfully solemn .