midnight
The Apaches , on their side , is demandin ' the capture of the nephy Moon for sp ` ilin ' one of their young men . `` The agent is a prairie dog jest out from the East , an ' do n't know half as much about what 's goin ' on inside of a Apache as a horned toad . He comes down to the aige of hostil ` ties , as you-all might call it , an ' makes Moon an ' his Winchester workin ' nephy a speech . He addresses 'em a whole lot on the enormity of downin ' Apaches who goes prowlin ' about an ' scarin ' up your mules at midnight , in what this yere witless agent calls a ` motif of childish cur ` osity , ' an ' he winds up the powwow with demandin ' the surrender of the ` hom ` cide . ' '' ` Surrender nothin ' ! ' says Captain Moon . ` You tell your Injuns to line out for their camp ; an ' do n't you yourse ' f get too zealous neither an ' come too clost , or as shore as I casts my first vote for Matty Van Buren , I 'll plug you plumb center . '