about three o'clock in the morning
`` In the second and third towns that we made , he picked up a couple of small bills that just about paid his expenses . He was just beginning to find that the road was not such an easy path to travel as , in his own mind , he had cracked it up to be . `` The next town we struck was Bismarck , North Dakota . We got in there about three o'clock in the morning . It was Thanksgiving Day . To be sure , I went to bed and had a good sleep . A man must always feel fresh , you know , if he expects to do any work .