midnight
At noon the next day Casey was still waiting -- but not hopefully . `` Patience on a monument '' could n't have resembled Casey Ryan in any particular whatever . He was mad . By midnight he had begun to wonder if he was not going to be made a goat again . By daylight , he was positive that he was already a goat . By the time the trusty brought his breakfast , Casey was applying to Mack Nolan the identical words and phrases which he had applied to young Kenner when he was the maddest . Do n't ask me to tell you what they were .