two in the morning
`` Twas haymaking -- a beautiful dry haymaking , hot and sunny , I remember well . Granny was out with the best of them , hard at work early and late . I went to school in the village , but there was n't much schooling that week or two . 'T was n't so strict as now -- an hour or two in the morning and then we 'd be told we might all run home , to help while the splendid weather lasted . Grandmother worked for the Squire ; I was always sure to find her about the fields and have my bite of dinner with her , and then the little ladies and gentlemen would have me play with them at what _ they _ called `` haymaking , '' though it was a funny kind enough -- more tossing and tumbling and laughing and shouting than any help to the haymakers . But we did enjoy it . ` Well there came an afternoon that my granny was off working in a field a good bit farther away than usual .