noon
cried Johnnie Green . `` I 'll do anything you ask of me ! '' `` When you 've learned to milk her , she 'll be yours , '' his father said . It was noon on a summer day when all this happened . And Johnnie Green wanted to go to the pasture at once and drive the Muley Cow home to be milked . But his father would n't let him do that . He said Johnnie must wait until milking-time came , that evening .