noon
Miss Brown had doled out twenty-five cents at the depot news-stand for a book full of jokes and funny pictures . Frank soon exhausted this literary fund . Then he bought some oranges from the train boy and had a lively chat with him . He bought a daily paper and read it through and through , and by noon the trip began to get a trifle monotonous . It was about one o'clock when the train arrived at a junction , where there was a stop for half an hour . Frank was glad to walk about and stretch his limbs . When leaving time came and he returned to the train he became interested in studying two passengers .