noon on Sunday
The punter could send a wickedly twisting spiral sixty yards , and the ends had an uncanny way of catching forward passes . Through the newspapers , through word of mouth and by letters the news arrived , -- and it became increasingly disconcerting . Unless Ridgley wished to be disgraced before the eyes of the world something must be done -- and done soon -- to bolster up the team . True to his word , old Daniel Holbrook drove his sorrel horse up to the school at noon on Sunday and brought Neil Durant and Teeny-bits down to the little white house that had been his home for thirty years . `` Ma '' Holbrook was a motherly person , plump , gray-haired and smiling . `` I do hope you two are good and hungry , '' she said , after Teeny-bits had introduced Neil . `` We 'll sit right down and keep sittin ' till we 're full . ''