Heed no nightly noises!

Forget the nightly noises!

The nightly noise often continues beyond 10 P.M., interfering with my sleep and that of my neighbors.

Heed no nightly noise!

Old Tom Bombadil heeded not the voices, taps, knocks, dancing feet, all the nightly noises; slept till the sun arose, then sang like a starling: 'Hey!

But then, in the earliest hours of that morning in November, a Sunday morning, certain foreign sounds impinged on the normal nightly Holcolmb noises - on the keening hysteria of coyotes, the dry scrape of scuttling tumbleweed, the racing, receding wail of locomotive whistles.