seven o'clock
If it rained I did not mind that . I like a summer rain . Day by day I grew bolder . Nobody in that household thought of getting up until seven o'clock . For two hours , at least , I could ramble undisturbed through my grounds , and much as I had once enjoyed these grounds , they never afforded me the pleasure they gave me now . In these happy mornings I felt all the life and spirits of a boy . I went into my little field and stroked the sleek sides of my cows as they nibbled the dewy grass .