noon
`` Work and win ; but where are you going to get your work ? '' said Noddy to himself . No more trains were to arrive for some hours , and he posted himself in the street , asking for a job whenever there was the least prospect of obtaining one . At noon , Noddy was hungry , and was obliged to spend half his morning 's earnings for a coarse dinner , for his circumstances did not permit him to indulge in the luxury of roast beef and plum pudding . During the afternoon he lay in wait for a job at the railroad stations , and in the most public places of the city . But the sum of his earnings was only five cents . `` Work and win ! ''