midnight
Even the wildest and most wolfish of the greeners were staring silently , craning brown necks forward . `` And his wife ran to him , and he falls against her ; and he says , ` Lay me down , Judith , and do n't you let em wake me -- not the young uns , ' he says ` not for nothing and nobody . For if it was the trump of the Most High , ' he says -- and Isaac was a religious man , and careful in his speech -- ` I must have my sleep . ' And she laid him down , and the children and she watched -- and by midnight Isaac turned himself over . He just opened his eyes once , and groaned . And he never spoke no more -- he was gone before mornin . -- And his master gave Judith five shillings towards the coffin , and the men in the shop , they raised the rest . ''