noon
The antediluvian animals are set in a beech-wood on a slope at least half a mile across the park from the castle . The grandfather of the present Lord Yalding had them set there in the middle of last century , in the great days of the late Prince Consort , the Exhibition of 1851 , Sir Joseph Paxton , and the Crystal Palace . Their stone flanks , their wide , ungainly wings , their lozenged crocodile-like backs show grey through the trees a long way off . Most people think that noon is the hottest time of the day . They are wrong . A cloudless sky gets hotter and hotter all the afternoon , and reaches its very hottest at five . I am sure you must all have noticed this when you are going out to tea anywhere in your best clothes , especially if your clothes are starched and you happen to have a rather long and shadeless walk .