noon
Said he made a practice of reading up on the stuff we are handling . _ We _ , mind you . Found it very interesting to know where it came from , and all about it . I 've been in the grocery business for pretty close to forty years , and I 've seen many an employee spend his noon hour in the pool rooms , or in some other little back room , or just smoking , but this is the first one I ever caught reading up the business in an encyclopaedia . Never read it that way myself . Well -- you watch him . I 'd risk a ten-spot that he knows more about tea this minute than half of our travellers . ''