noon
He loved to comment satirically on the city , with a broad humorous sense of his own strangeness there . `` The city folks do n't seem to have nothing to do , '' he said . `` They seem to be all out , walking up and down the streets . Come noon , I thought there 'd be some let-up for dinner ; but they did n't seem to want nothing to eat ; they kep ' right on walking . '' I must not leave James Parsons without telling you of two whale 's teeth which stand on his parlor mantel-piece ; he ornamented them himself , copying the designs from cheap foreign prints . One of them is what he calls `` the meeting-house . '' It is the high altar of the Cathedral of Seville .