midnight
Thief ! Thief ! '' shouted Peter Rabbit at Sammy Jay , and kept on down the Crooked Little Path . It was true -- Peter Rabbit had been out all night playing in the moonlight , stealing a midnight feast in Farmer Brown 's cabbage patch and getting into mischief with Bobby Coon . Now when most of the little meadow people were just waking up Peter Rabbit was thinking of bed . Presently he came to a big piece of bark which is the roof of Mr. Toad 's house . Mr. Toad was sitting in his doorway blinking at jolly , round , red Mr. Sun , who had just begun to climb up the sky .