two o'clock
We had mighty good weather as a general thing , and nothing ever happened to us at all -- that night , nor the next , nor the next . Every night we passed towns , some of them away up on black hillsides , nothing but just a shiny bed of lights ; not a house could you see . The fifth night we passed St. Louis , and it was like the whole world lit up . In St. Petersburg they used to say there was twenty or thirty thousand people in St. Louis , but I never believed it till I see that wonderful spread of lights at two o'clock that still night . There war n't a sound there ; everybody was asleep . Every night now I used to slip ashore towards ten o'clock at some little village , and buy ten or fifteen cents ' worth of meal or bacon or other stuff to eat ; and sometimes I lifted a chicken that war n't roosting comfortable , and took him along . Pap always said , take a chicken when you get a chance , because if you do n't want him yourself you can easy find somebody that does , and a good deed ai n't ever forgot .