noon
Although he worked such long hours , Abe still found time to read . He sat up late and got up early in the morning , and Sarah made the children keep quiet when he wanted to study . Sometimes he took a book to work with him . Instead of talking to the other farm hands at noon , he 'd go off by himself and read a few pages while he ate his dinner . People for miles around loaned him books . Sometimes he walked fifteen miles to Rockport , the county seat , to borrow books from John Pitcher , the town lawyer . `` Everything I want to know is in books , '' he told Dennis .