about midnight
But farmer Stiles said , `` Nay , 't is like none of your bulls nor cats . But when I have come home too near the next morning , my wife can make me think of this Dragon as soon as ever her mouth be open . '' -LSB- Illustration : Popham awaiteth the Result with Dignity -RSB- This shows you that there were divers opinions . If you were not afraid to look out of the window about midnight , you could see the sky begin to look red in the quarter from which he was approaching , just as it glares when some distant house is on fire . But you must shut the window and hide before he came over the hill ; for very few that had looked upon the Dragon ever lived to that day twelvemonth . This monster devoured the substance of the tenantry and yeomen . When their fields of grain were golden for the harvest , in a single night he cut them down and left their acres blasted by his deadly fire .