noon
Mother says I 'm brave , but it 's not very brave inside I 'm feelin ' . I 'd run if I could . '' But Pat was to learn some day , and learn it from the General 's lips , that the very bravest men have been men who wanted to run and _ would n't _ . At General Brady 's there was light lunch at noon and dinner at five , which was something Pat had already become accustomed to from having to do his own family cooking for the last six weeks . He was pretty well used to hurrying home the moment the afternoon session of school was over to prepare the meal of the day for his hungry brothers and his tired mother . On Monday , therefore , he came flying into the Brady kitchen at fifteen minutes of five . There was the dinner cooking , with no one to watch it .