midnight
`` Tut , tut , '' said Mr. McKenna , indifferently . `` Ye may tut-tut till ye lay an egg , '' said Mr. Dooley , severely , `` ye ol' hen ; but 't is so . I read it in th ' pa-papers yesterdah afthernoon that Brinnan -- 't is queer how thim Germans all get to be polismen , they 're bright men , th ' Germans , I do n't think -- Brinnan says , says he , that th ' city do be overrun with burglars an ' highwaymen , so he ordhers th ' polis to stick up ivry pedesthreen they meet afther closin ' time . 'T is good for him he named th ' hour , f ' r 't is few pedesthreens save an ' except th ' little kids with panneckers that most iv th ' polis meet befure midnight . Look at there table , will ye ? ` An ax done it , ' says ye ? No , faith , but th ' fist iv a Kerry polisman they put on this here bate last week .