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> It was their first summer in boots, and they hated them, so they took
>  them off, and slung them round their necks, and paddled joyfully over
>  the dripping turf where the shadows lay the wrong way, like evening in
>  the East. The sun was well up and warm, but by the brook the last of
>  the night mist still fumed off the water. 
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This is an extract from "Rewards and Fairies" by Rudyard Kipling.

I can not understand the meaning of:

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> "the dripping turf where the shadows lay the wrong way, like evening in
>  the East."
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What does "the shadows lay the wrong way" mean?