noon
Just then the air was rent with shrill cries , she saw school-boys piling over a fence and rushing toward her hiding-place , and , her wits yet ungathered , she turned and fled in terror down the hill , nor did she stop until the cries behind her grew faint ; and then she was much ashamed of herself . Nobody was in pursuit of her -- it was the dream that had frightened her . She could almost step on the head of her own shadow now , and that fact and a pang of hunger told her it was noon . It was noon recess back at the school and those school-boys were on their way to a playground . She had left her lunch at the log where she slept , and so she made her way back to it , just in time to see two boys pounce on the little paper bag lying in the grass . There was no shyness about her then -- that bag was hers -- and she flashed forward . `` Gim me that poke ! ''