noon
`` I was wonderin ' how we 'd git over with the contraption . You kin keep on shovin ' planks an ' logs under till she floats , an ' tie them together with the ropes ye brung along . A good idee . '' It was not until noon that they had the so-called raft built and the biplane fastened to it . The work had made them all hungry and they were glad that they had brought along a substantial lunch . They sat down in the shade of the woods to eat , washing the meal down with some water from a spring back of the old hut , -- or rather of what was now left of the structure . While the boys ate they talked about Josiah Crabtree and Tad Sobber and the others who were their enemies .