midday
`` Why do n't you set a trap for it ? '' asked Twinkle 's mother . `` I believe I will , '' answered the man . So , when the midday dinner was over , the farmer went to the barn and got a steel trap , and carried it over to the clover-field on the hillside . Twinkle wanted very much to go with him , but she had to help mamma wash the dishes and put them away , and then brush up the dining-room and put it in order . But when the work was done , and she had all the rest of the afternoon to herself , she decided to go over to the woodchuck 's hole and see how papa had set the trap , and also discover if the woodchuck had yet been caught . So the little girl took her blue-and-white sun-bonnet , and climbed over the garden fence and ran across the corn-field and through the rye until she came to the red-clover patch on the hill .