Two o'clock
the fire-watch going the rounds . All right , one can sleep now in peace and comfort . Or perhaps a child would wake up in a troubled dream , and would lay and listen , terrified by hideous imaginations of thieves and robbers climbing in at the kitchen window to kill father and mother with long knives . But outside the watchman cries : `` Two o'clock , and a still night . '' Ah ! the watch ; yes , of course , that was the watch ; so no thieves or robbers can come in at the kitchen window . All bad people must stay at home , or the watch will take them to the lock-up .