"What's the time?"
"Don't know.... It's still dark."
"All right, then, we'll get up. Hutin, come on, get up!"
I shook Hutin, who growled in answer:
"All right! Oh, Lord, I was so comfortable there!"
The noise of shuffling straw filled the barn.
"What's the time?" repeated somebody.
"Look out there! There's a rung missing in the ladder."
Noises of feet scraping against the ladder. An oath.
"Get the lantern!"