noon
The bridge is now dry , and therefore you can pass it easily if you do not leave go of the hand-rail . Good-morning , dear , I feel so sleepy -- come and tell me with whom Kapchack has fallen in love ; and remember me to the squirrel . '' So saying the toad went back into his hole and went to sleep . All this talking had passed away the morning , but in the afternoon , when the sun got a little lower , and the heat was not quite so great , Bevis , who had not been allowed to go out at noon , came forth again , and at once started up the Home Field . He easily reached the great oak-tree , and from there he knew his way to the corner of the wheat-field , where he stopped and looked for the hare , but she was not there , nor did she answer when he called to her . At the sound of his voice a number of sparrows rose from the wheat , which was now ripening , and flew up to the hedge , where they began to chatter about Kapchack 's love affair . Bevis walked on across the field , and presently found a footpath ; he followed this , as the toad had instructed him , and after getting over two stiles there was the copse on the right , though he had to climb over a high gate to get into the meadow next to it .