five o'clock
They had been too busy to eat . Pelle sat down among the dunes and ate his dinner . As usual when Rud had been with him , he could not imagine what had become of the day . The birds had ceased singing , and not one of the cattle was still lying down , so it must be at least five o'clock . Up at the farm they were busy driving in . It went at full gallop -- out and in , out and in . The men stood up in the carts and thrashed away at the horses with the end of the reins , and the swaying loads were hurried along the field-roads , looking like little bristling , crawling things , that have been startled and are darting to their holes .