About noon
Most of these were of moderate size , and some of them might have been called small . The large ones probably fancied the forest shades , where old Peter went . But all I caught were fit for the table , and I was very well satisfied with the result of my sport . About noon I began to feel hungry , and thought it time to look up the old man , who had the lunch-basket . I walked down the bank of the brook , and some time before I reached the woods I came to a place where it expanded to a width of about ten feet . The water here was very clear , and the motion quiet , so that I could easily see to the bottom , which did not appear to be more than a foot below the surface . Gazing into this transparent water , as I walked , I saw a large trout glide across the stream , and disappear under the grassy bank which overhung the opposite side .