noon
`` Because you have a fancy for it , I 've a notion , and so I have a fancy just now to shout away . I mus 'n' t frighten the little chap , '' he muttered to himself . `` It wo n't do to tell him what Jack Shark is looking after . '' Thus Dick sat on till he thought by the position of the sun that it must be noon , when he gave Charley his dinner and cup of water -- he himself eating but sparingly , for fear of diminishing his scanty store and depriving the child of food . `` I can hold out much longer than he can , '' he said to himself , `` and I must not let him get into bad case . '' Every now and then Dick stood up and gazed around the horizon , anxiously looking out for the signs of a breeze which might bring up some ship . The sun was again sinking beneath the ocean , which continued glass-like as before .