about midnight
It 's the way they all do . '' So I said I would , and left , and Jim was to hide in the woods when he see the doctor coming till he was gone again . The doctor was an old man ; a very nice , kind-looking old man when I got him up . I told him me and my brother was over on Spanish Island hunting yesterday afternoon , and camped on a piece of a raft we found , and about midnight he must ` a ' kicked his gun in his dreams , for it went off and shot him in the leg , and we wanted him to go over there and fix it and not say nothing about it , nor let anybody know , because we wanted to come home this evening and surprise the folks . `` Who is your folks ? '' he says . `` The Phelpses , down yonder . ''