midnight
The next day , after tying Capi to the caravan , where he was to be on guard , I hurried off to the race-course with Mattia . We began to play as soon as we arrived and kept it up until night . My fingers ached as though they had been pricked with a thousand pins and poor Mattia had blown his cornet so long that he could scarcely breathe . It was past midnight . Just as they were doing their last turn a big bar of iron which they were using in their feats fell on Mattia 's foot . I thought that his foot was broken . Fortunately it was only severely bruised .