about two A.M
Only I 've been in Noo Yawk long enough to git the Noo Yawk habit of thinking everybody beyond Rahway , New Jersey , is the Far West . I 'm really figuring to land in one of them small junction points , such as Cleveland or Pittsburgh . And we would too , if it had n'ta been for that there head brakeman . `` Anyway , we moons round in a kind of an unostentatious way , with the Kid still acting peevish and low in his mind , and me saying little things every now and then to chirk him up , until the shank of the evening arrives ` long about two A.M. . Then we slips over into the yards below Riverside Drive , taking due care not to wake up no sleeping policeman on the way . There we presently observes a freight train , which is giving signs of getting ready to make up its mind to go somewheres . `` A freight train is like a woman .