about four o'clock
he said , with decision , and we all trooped off to our appointed labors . Now that I had stirred up this beehive and set it swarming again , I had no inclination to turn drone . Yet I remembered my note to the Countess de Vassart and her reply . So about four o'clock I made the best toilet I could in my only other suit of clothes , and walked out of the bustling camp into the square , where the mossy fountain splashed under the oaks and the children of Paradise were playing . Hands joined , they danced in a ring , singing : '' _ Barzig ha barzig a Goneri Ari e mab roue gand daou pe dri _ '' -- `` Little minstrel-bard of Conéri The son of the King has come with two or three -- Nay , with a whole bright flock of paroquets , Crimson , silver , and violet . '' And the children , in their white coiffes and tiny wooden shoes , moved round and round the circle , in the middle of which a little lad and a little lass of Paradise stood motionless , hand clasping hand . The couplet ended , the two children in the middle sprang forward and dragged a third child out of the circle .