noon
`` It must be a patent attachment then , '' laughed Kitty , '' -- something that keeps Sarah on ! '' `` Grandmother will have to go in the buckboard -- Uncle Joe 's going to drive and -- '' Blue Bonnet did some hasty calculating , `` I had better stay with Grandmother -- it 's smoother riding with two in a seat . Firefly will hate being led , but I reckon some disciplining wo n't hurt him . '' They were up before dawn in order to complete the first stage of the journey before noon . As they gathered about the lamp-lighted table for breakfast , yawning and rubbing their eyes , Blue Bonnet gave an amused laugh . '' ` In _ summer _ I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light . ' '' she quoted .