Midday
At nine the first one lay down to chew the morning cud , and then all gradually lay down one by one ; and there was always a moment at about ten when they all lay chewing . At eleven the last of them were upon their legs again . It was the same in the afternoon between three and five . Midday was easy to determine when the sun was shining . Pelle could always feel it when it turned in its path . And there were a hundred other things in nature that gave him a connection with the times of day , such as the habits of the birds , and something about the fir-trees , and much besides that he could not lay his finger upon and say it was there , because it was only a feeling . The time to drive home was given by the cattle themselves .