noon
Then they ran round to look at the water-wheel and the little pond where the stream was dammed so there would be no lack of water in a dry time . They had a drawing pattern in school just like it , except that it lacked the broken rustic bridge a little higher up . She would take a new interest in drawing it now . It was noon when they reached home , and Hanny felt real hungry , though Mrs. Odell declared she did n't eat more than a bird . She was glad her girls were not such delicate little things . They went out on the shady back stoop afterward . Janey was sewing the over-seam in a sheet that her mother wanted turned .