Noon
Together they hunted that day . She carried what his skilful aim brought down from the tangled greenery above . Birds , squirrels , chipmunks , all were welcome . Noon found them in possession of more than thirty pieces of small game , including two hedgehogs . And for the first time in almost a week they tasted flesh again , roasted on a sharp stick over the glowing coals . Stern hunted all that day and the next . He dressed the game with an extraordinarily large and sharp clamshell , which he whetted from time to time on a rock beside the spring .