noon
After breakfast I took Elizabeth out to show her my progress . `` It looks nice , '' she said , `` and how easily you did it ! '' It took me four memorable mornings to finish the asparagus-bed , and , proud as I was of the job , I resigned , after that , in favor of William . The brazen trumpets of the sky even at high noon could not phase W. Deegan . Often in July I have sat in the maple shade , with pride watching him carry out my directions concerning weeds and potato-bugs . I admired and honored William . I have the greatest respect for honorable toil , but even more for callithump .