one o'clock in the morning
`` It will be in the north again to-night ; we shall have a full moon and better luck , I hope . Do you know , '' he went on excitedly , `` that one night last October I killed forty-two ducks alone in this old _ gabion _ . _ Forty-two ! _ Twenty mallards and the rest Vignon -- and not a shot before one o'clock in the morning . Then they came in , right and left . I believe my faithful decoys will remember that night until their dying day . Ah , it was glorious !