twelve
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Dear ! dear ! Think of getting to a place where people have only one apple-tree , '' muttered Mr. Bright . By the time that they had made the circuit of the island it was twelve o'clock . This was dinner-time , Eyebright declared , and she produced the lunch-basket . Mrs. Downs 's bread had yellow specks of saleratus in it , and was very different from Wealthy 's delicious loaves ; but they were too hungry to criticise , though Eyebright shook her head over it , and thought with satisfaction of the big parcel of yeast-powder which she and Wealthy had packed up . She knew exactly where it was , in the corner of a certain red box , and that reminded her to ask papa when the boxes would be likely to come .