midnight
This raised a storm of merriment , after which he recited the poem of Burns , with keen appreciation of its quality . Samson repeatedly writes of his gift for interpretation , especially of the comic , and now and then lays particular stress on his power of mimicry . John Cameron sang _ The Sword of Bunker Hill _ and _ Forty Years Ago , Tom _ . Samson played while the older people danced until midnight . Then , after noisy farewells , men , women and children started in the moonlit road toward the village . Ann Rutledge had Abe on one arm and John McNeil on the other . When Samson paid Mr. Gollaher , a `` detector '' came with the latter to look at the money before it was accepted .