midnight
It is a curious and a difficult saying , for I can not myself understand how the day could be dead , nor how the hare could chase the sportsman ; but you , who have so high a reputation for sagacity , can no doubt in time interpret it . Now put in some more wedges and help me out . '' But the fox , having learnt all that the toad could tell him , went away , and finding the osiers , curled himself up to sleep . The same night , the weasel , having had a very pleasant nap upon his divan in the elm in the squirrel 's copse , woke up soon after midnight , and started for the farm , in order to enjoy the pleasure of seeing the rat in the gin , which he had instructed Bevis how to set up . Had it not been for this he would not have faced so terrible a tempest , but to see the rat in torture he would have gone through anything . As he crept along a furrow , not far outside the copse , choosing that route that he might be somewhat sheltered in the hollow from the wind , he saw a wire which a poacher had set up , and stayed to consider how he could turn it to his advantage . `` There is Ulu , the hare , '' he said to himself , `` who lives in the wheat-field ; I had her son , he was very sweet and tender , and also her nephew , who was not so juicy , and I have noticed that she has got very plump of late .