about two in the morning
His gun he had charged heavily with buckshot ; and altogether the ruse was ingenious , if nothing more . Nothing disturbed the flock on the first night that he spent in the pasture , nor on the second ; but he resolved to persevere . It was no very bad way to pass an autumn night ; the weather was pleasant and warm , and there was a bright moon nearing its full . He had kept awake during the first night , listening and watching for the most of the time ; but he caught naps the second , and on the third was sleeping comfortably at about two in the morning , when he was suddenly set upon , tooth and nail , by what he believed , on first waking , to be a whole family of bears . One had him by the leg , through the bag , shaking him . Another was dragging at the back of the bag , while the teeth of a third were snapping at his face . Still other teeth were chewing upon his arm , and the growling was something frightful !