four o'clock
The rollicking good nature and repartees of some of these people , especially of the gipsies , were often very funny . They would chaff the agent who registered their scores , with a considerable power of humour , and the Grange girls , waiting in line for their turns , would chuckle as they overheard the conversations . At eleven everybody ate lunch which they had brought with them , then worked till one , when they returned to the camp for dinner . Picking went on again from two till six , with an interval at four o'clock for tea , which was brought down to the gardens in large cans , and poured into the workers ' own mugs . It was almost the most acceptable meal of the day , taken sitting under the hedge , with the scent of roses in the air , and the summer sunshine falling across the fields . By the end of the first evening , the Grange girls decided that , though they wished they had cast-iron backs , the experience on the whole was great fun . They liked the camp life , and even their hay-sack beds .