three in the morning
`` Well , anyhow , we must have an end of it to-night , '' says the Captain decisively . And they go . I asked myself : was it to warn anybody I had thrown that empty bottle ? * * * * * At three in the morning I heard Nils go out to feed the horses . At four he knocked to rouse me out of bed . I did not grudge him the honour of being first up , though I could have called him earlier myself , any hour of that night indeed , for I had not slept . 'T is easy enough to go without sleep a night or two in this light , fine air ; it does not make for drowsiness .