About seven o’clock
He worked heart and soul and began to put by something with which to pay off his debt to Sort . Now he saw the day in the distance when he should be able to send for Father Lasse . In the morning , when the dwellers on the roof , drunken with sleep , tumbled out into the long gangway , in order to go to their work , before the quarter-to-six whistle sounded , Pelle already sat in his room hammering on his cobbler 's last . About seven o'clock he went to Beck 's workshop , if there was anything for him to do there . And he received orders too from the dwellers in the `` Ark. '' In connection with this work he acquired an item of practical experience , an idea which was like a fruitful seed which lay germinating where it fell and continually produced fresh fruit . It was equivalent to an improvement in his circumstances to discover that he had shaken off one parasite ; if only he could send the other after him and keep all his profits for himself ! That sounded quite fantastic , but Pelle had no desire to climb up to the heights only to fall flat on the earth again .