about midnight
She was foaled at Indian Creek , and one month later , when she was brought over to Sawyer 's Bar , was considered the smallest donkey ever seen in the foot-hills . The legend that she was brought over in one of `` Dan the Quartz Crusher 's '' boots required corroboration from that gentleman ; but his denial being evidently based upon a masculine vanity regarding the size of his foot rather than a desire to be historically accurate , it went for nothing . It is certain that for the next two months she occupied the cabin of Dan , until , perhaps incensed at this and other scandals , she one night made her way out . `` I had n't the least idee wot woz comin ' , '' said Dan , `` but about midnight I seemed to hear hail onto the roof , and a shower of rocks and stones like to a blast started in the canyon . When I got up and struck a light , thar was suthin ' like onto a cord o ' kindlin ' wood and splinters whar she 'd stood asleep , and a hole in the side o ' the shanty , and -- no Jinny ! Lookin ' at them hoofs o ' hern -- and mighty porty they is to look at , too -- you would allow she could do it ! '' I fear that this performance laid the foundation of her later infelicitous reputation , and perhaps awakened in her youthful breast a misplaced ambition , and an emulation which might at that time have been diverted into a nobler channel .