midnight
Ef you could only furgit all them poor people that got theirselves drowned it would be mighty fine , sailin ' ` roun ' in an ark a mile or so long , guessin ' at the places whar the towns hev stood , an ' lettin ' down a line now an ' then to sound fur the tops uv the highest mountains in the world . '' `` You would n't hev no time fur lettin ' down lines fur mountain tops , Jim Hart , '' said Shif ` less Sol . `` An ' why would n't I hev time fur lettin ' down lines fur anythin ' I wanted , you lazy Solomon Hyde ? '' '' 'Cause it would be your job to feed the animals , an ' to do it right you 'd hev to git up early in the mornin ' an ' work purty nigh to midnight all the forty days the flood lasted . Me an ' Henry an ' Paul an ' Tom would spen ' most o ' our time settin ' on the edge o ' the ark with our umbrellers h ` isted , lookin ' at the scenery , while you wuz down in the bowels o ' the ark , heavin ' in more meat to the lions an ' tigers , which wuz allus roarin ' fur more . '' `` I would n't feed no animals , not ef every one uv 'em starved to death . Besides , what would be the use uv it ?