about noon
`` You were gone before midday , '' Solomon Owl insisted . And they had something very like a dispute , while Solomon Owl sat in one tree and Benjamin Bat hung head downward from another . `` I ought to know , '' said Solomon . `` I was awake about noon ; and I looked everywhere for you . '' `` What for ? '' asked Benjamin . Naturally , Solomon did n't like to tell him that he had intended to eat him .