Noon
Times are when you can see as far as a hundred feet . And say ! it 's a wonderful sight let me tell you . '' Noon came and they sat down to the lunch that had been prepared for them , this time by Frank and Spider , Bobolink having begged off . The sun was shining in a dazzling way upon the white-coated ground . It looked like fairyland the boys declared , though but little of the snow had remained on the oaks , beeches and other forest trees , owing to the furious and persistent wind . The hemlocks , however , were bending low with the weight that pressed upon their branches .