About four o'clock
`` No , for I have n't anything in them ! '' cried Hanne , showing her hands and laughing . `` Can you hold what you have n't got , Pelle ? '' About four o'clock they came to the Schleswig Stone , where the Social - Democrats were holding a meeting . Pelle had never yet attended any big meeting at which he could hear agitators speaking , but had obtained his ideas of the new movements at second hand . They were in tune with the blind instinct within him . But he had never experienced anything really electrifying -- only that confused , monotonous surging such as he had heard in his childhood when he listened with his ear to the hollow of the wooden shoe .