midnight
You ca n't see 'em , but you hear 'em . I thought I 'd ha ' dropped when I turned up the sassyfrack bush , and got hold on it ; and all the way back I feared a big arm 'd come out o ' every fence-corner , and snatch it from me ! '' -LSB- Footnote : It does not seem to have been generally known in the neighborhood that the money was unearthed . A tradition of that and other treasure buried by Sandy Flash , is still kept alive ; and during the past ten years two midnight attempts have been made to find it , within a hundred yards of the spot indicated in the narrative . -RSB- Mary Potter set the kettle on the fire , and Deb . Smith was soon refreshed with a glass of hot grog . Then she lighted her pipe and watched the two as they made preparations for the journey to Chester on the morrow , now and then nodding her head with an expression which chased away the haggard sorrow from her features .