about noon
`` I thought I should faint when I saw Flossie go into that cage . I wish I could get a cup of tea . '' `` We 'll go and have lunch , '' said Mr. Bobbsey . `` It 's about noon , I think . '' They went to a restaurant near a great round stone , which was perched on the top of a big ledge of rock , and when Freddie wanted to know what it was his father told him . `` That 's a rocking stone , '' said Mr. Bobbsey . `` It stands there on a sort of little knob , and it is so nicely balanced that a man , or two or three boys , can easily push it and rock it to and fro . ''