noon
`` Where should he be ? He 's up in the hill lot , cuttin ' hay . That grass is all in flower ; it had ought to been cut a week ago ; but Josiah always has one of his hands behind him . '' `` And he wo n't be in till noon . I must harness the waggon myself . '' `` If you can catch the horse , '' said her mother . `` He 's turned out in the lot .