about midnight
Pelle can not understand how people can keep going day and night . `` All the bakers in Copenhagen do -- so that the people can get fresh bread in the morning -- and our master wants to introduce it here . But it is n't every one can do it ; the whole staff had to be reorganized . It 's worst about midnight , when everything is turning round . Then it comes over you so that you keep on looking at the time , and the very moment the clock strikes twelve we all hold our breath , and then no one can come in or go out any more . The master himself ca n't stand the night shift ; the ` baccy turns sour in his mouth and he has to lay it on the table . When he wakes up again he thinks it 's a raisin and sticks it in the dough .