midday
`` Is n't it too bad that they should all have to strive so hard for the little they get , '' she said , suddenly . `` They do it willingly and bravely , Miss Jelliffe , '' I said . `` Here as elsewhere , of course , the rain falls on the just and the unjust , and usually spoils their fish . '' When we landed some men came out of the fish-houses , for the time of the midday meal was at hand . I called for volunteers to bring a hand barrow . `` Who 's got a bed in his house that I can put Dick Will in for a few days , till he gets better ? '' I asked .