eleven
o'clock until three
No need ever to coax her any more . She was ready always to go in that canoe , jealous of anything that prevented a chance to go . Often she and Cherry , instead of getting a hot lunch at home , would put up the most delectable lunch in paper boxes , and when the children came home she would be ready to go right down to the canoe and spend two delightful hours floating up and down the creek and eating an unconscionable number of sandwiches and cakes . This happened most often on Wednesdays , when the children had no classes from eleven o'clock until three and there was time to take the noon hour in a leisurely way . Not even cool weather coming on could daunt them . Steamer-rugs and warm sweaters and gloves were requisitioned , and the open-air lunches went on just the same . One day they took a pot of hot soup and three small bowls and spoons .