midnight
`` About twenty miles west of here . It will be a short run . He will be a very much surprised young man when he wakes up in the morning and finds us lying on the siding with him . '' The train to which the cars were to be attached was not to leave until sometime after midnight . When it finally came in all the advertising car crews were in bed and asleep . Teddy Tucker , however , was not only wide awake , but outside at that . `` Couple us up next to your rear car , and put the other fellows on the rear if you will , '' he said to the conductor .