six in the morning
Birds ' - nesting and orchard-robbing are not in season together . Cousin James and Cousin Thomas James Brown was born at a farmhouse . He had not seen a town or a city when he was ten years old . James Brown rose from his bed at six in the morning during summer . The men and maids of a farmhouse rise much sooner than that hour , and go to their daily work . Some yoke the oxen to the plough , some bring the horses in from the field , some mend the hedges , some manure the land , some sow seed in the ground , and some plant young trees . Those who have the care of the sheep , and who are called shepherds , take their flocks from the fold and lead them to their pasture on the hills , or in the green meadows by the running brook .