noon
Teeny-bits liked Turner 's frank , outspoken way . He made up his mind that he liked him still better when Turner said : `` None of the fellows call me Terrible Turner , you know -- that was just some bunk that Bassett invented . They all call me Snubby -- on account of my nose , I guess . '' That noon an incident occurred that some of the roomers in Gannett Hall noticed : just before lunch Teeny-bits ' trunk came . Mr. Holbrook brought it up from the village in a buggy drawn by a sorrel horse and with Teeny-bits ' help carried it to the room on the third floor . Several of the boys remembered seeing Mr. Holbrook in the Hamilton station and when Teeny-bits introduced him as his father they suddenly realized that the conqueror of Whirlwind Bassett and the bearer of the queer nickname was the son of the station agent and a native of the little hamlet that nestled at the foot of the hill . Mr. Holbrook was white-haired and he walked with a slight limp that made him seem old .