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midnight
The others forgot all about having fun watching Hen , and named old favorites and new ones , heard them sung inimitably and called for more . At midnight Bud blew on his blistered fingertips and shook the guitar gently , bottom-side up . `` I guess that 's all the music there is in the darned thing to-night , '' he lamented . `` She 's made to keep time , and she always strikes , along about midnight . '' `` Huh-huh ! '' chortled Hen convulsively , as if he understood the joke . He closed his mouth and sighed deeply , as one who has just wakened from a trance .