midday
Then he lazily arose and deliberately spat , between his teeth , into the fireplace . There was not enough of him alive to feel that he had been imposed upon . For breakfast they had big soda biscuits and fried bacon floating in its own grease . There was enough of it left for the midday lunch . This was put into a tin pail with a tight fitting top . The pail , when opened , smelt of the death and remains of every other soda biscuit that had ever been laid away within this tightly closed mausoleum of tin . They had scarcely eaten before the shrill scream of the mill-whistle called them to their work .