noon
You did n't have to worry about your children . Four dozen families , all with offspring , trapped behind ten-foot patrolled fence . Here , nobody worried about their children . They came and went and at noon a mother fed whatever number happened to be in the house at the time . Mrs. Kendall usually drew six or seven . It would be a relief to dodge the chore for one Saturday ... * * * * * Out in the backyard , Bobby fussed around his space rocket a little : tightening a screw here -- hammering in a nail there . Just until he could slip away without Mom noticing his direction .