midnight
`` How strange it must seem to you , '' said Tom Miller ; whereupon they all laughed , good-natured Hans with the rest . `` Do let 's hear it , '' said Harry ; `` there has not been an idea in this crowd for a month . '' `` Well , '' said Hans , `` let 's every fellow tell a story here on the cellar door , turn about , on Friday evenings . '' `` All except m-m-me , '' stammered Sampson , who was always laughing at his own defect ; `` I c-c-couldn ' t g-g-get through be-be-fore midnight . '' `` Well , '' said Miller , `` we 'll make Will Sampson chairman , to keep us in order . '' They all agreed to this , and Sampson moved up to the top of the cellar-door and said : `` G-g-gentlemen , th-th-this is th-th-the proudest m-m-moment of my life . I 'm president of the C-c-cellar-d-d-door C-club !