noon
`` Well , I 'm glad I 'm not a tree , '' grinned Steve , `` because it must be terribly monotonous staying all your life rooted to the ground , and never seeing anything of this beautiful world . As for me , I want to travel when I grow up , and look on every foreign land . Going on now , Jack , are you ? Soon be time to take a little noon rest , and lighten the loads we 're carrying in our pockets . '' `` Given half an hour more and it 'll be noon , '' Jack informed him , after taking a look aloft to where the beaming sun was high in the heavens . `` I never like to eat lunch until then , so let 's wait a bit . Besides , I 'm not quite as hungry as I ought to be to do justice to all that stuff you put in my pockets . ''