noon
`` Yes , like one o'clock ! '' chimed in Captain Dinks , showing an equal enthusiasm . `` The old girl is walking away with us at a fine rate , McCarthy . I would n't be surprised if we logged three hundred by noon . '' `` And fifty more tacked on it , sorr , '' said the mate . `` Why , we 've done twelve knots ivry hour of my watch ; and Adams tould me she wor running the same at eight bells . By the piper that played before Moses , it 's a beauty she is -- she 'd bate aisy the fastest tay clipper from Shanghai ! ''