noon
It seemed to them that Big Jim was too good for such work . Little Jim wanted to leave school and be a water boy and his father 's helper . Big Jim never seemed to hear the boy 's request and Little Jim kept on at school . The noon whistle blew just as the cable was once more in running order . Little Jim slid down into the pit with his father 's dinner bucket and sat by while his father ate . Big Jim Manning was big only in height . He was six feet tall , but lean .