Noon
`` Now we 'll go to work , '' he said . The work which awaited Bert was in the cornfield . He was set to hoeing , and kept it up for three hours , along with the farmer in the adjoining row . Noon came , and Silas , pausing in his work , said : `` I calculate Mis ' Wilson will have dinner ready . We 'll go to the house . '' Bert followed the farmer into the kitchen , in the center of which a table was set . A bony and angular woman was just placing on it a large pitcher of water .