noon
You wire 'em to meet the express , and then you pass him back . Tell McWhire not to let him get to sleepin ' . He ai n't an easy proposition , when he 's gone to Bylow , now I tell you , '' and the conductor of No. 5 swung himself aboard . Elsmere had the time of his life in the two hours before the arrival of the noon express . The station agent was a sociable soul . He had a guinea-pig in a box , so delightful to observe that Elsmere forgot his desire for zwieback and became conversational . He told the agent the history of the polly-wogs he had raised `` till they was all froggies , only one was deaded . ''