noon
This she did with such good-will that the Millerites were glad to drop down again , and mutter vengeance at a safe distance . Altogether it was a great day for the school , a day to be remembered . As time went on , Katy , what with the excitement of her adventure , and of being praised and petted by the big girls , grew perfectly reckless , and hardly knew what she said or did . A good many of the scholars lived too far from school to go home at noon , and were in the habit of bringing their lunches in baskets , and staying all day . Katy and Clover were of this number . This noon , after the dinners were eaten , it was proposed that they should play something in the school-room , and Katy 's unlucky star put it into her head to invent a new game , which she called the Game of Rivers . It was played in the following manner : Each girl took the name of a river , and laid out for herself an appointed path through the room , winding among the desks and benches , and making a low , roaring sound , to imitate the noise of water .