midnight
Among those presint was -- ' an ' so on . `` That 's what th ' gallant Higginson says . But listen to what th ' akelly gallant McArthur says : ` I have th ' honor to rayport that mesilf an ' me gallant men , but largely if I do say it that shudde n't , mesilf , crushed an ' annihilated th ' inimy 's fleet at high noon to-day . Las ' night at th ' first round iv jacks , or midnight , as civilyans wud say , we rayceived a rayport fr 'm our vigylant scouts that th ' inimy were not at Bar Harbor , Pookypsie , Keokuk , Johannesboorg or Council Bluffs . But where were they ? That was th ' question . An idee struck me .