noon
By the bye , gentlemen , I hope you have brought up some trolling-tackle ? ' ` We came up to see you , and not to fish , ' said Lancelot , charmed with the stately courtesy of the man . ` Many thanks , gentlemen ; but old Harry Verney was in here just now , and had seen a great jack strike , at the tail of the lower reeds . With this fresh wind he will run till noon ; and you are sure of him with a dace . After that , he will not be up again on the shallows till sunset . He works the works of darkness , and comes not to the light , because his deeds are evil . ' Lancelot laughed .