noon
`` If anyone happens to overhear us talking , '' laughed Hazy , `` he 'll think that we 're all planning to take up prize fighting as our work in life . '' `` I do n't like to hear the officers of the Army and Navy scoffed at as a lot of idling , time-wasting dandies , '' Darry asserted . `` And I do n't like to be accused of liking dirt on my clothes , just because I am going to be a civil engineer , '' Tom explained in a milder voice . An ideal bit of green forest , at the edge of a limpid lake , appealed to Dick & Co. as the noon stopping place . `` I 've a good mind to fish , '' remarked Danny Grin . `` Go ahead , if you want to , '' Dick assented , `` but we 've got a lot of fresh meat that we simply must cook this noon , for it may not keep until night . '' `` It would take you an hour or more , even though the fish bit readily , to catch enough fish to feed this little multitude , '' Tom remarked .