noon
`` I shall be glad to come . '' `` Drop your shovel then and come along now . '' `` No , '' he replied , as he dug his spade deep into the soil , `` I ca n't quit my job . The whistle blows at noon . '' At noon ! At the seventh noon , the whistle was to blow ! He tossed the weight of two ordinary shovelfuls of gravel into the cart as lightly as a child tosses a bean bag .