noon
That was all that was said ; then he lost his temper . He said that between ------ fools and guide-books , a man could acquire ignorance enough in twenty-four hours in a country like this to last him a year . Harris believed our boy had been loading him up with misinformation ; and this was probably the case , for his epithet described that boy to a dot . We got under way about the turn of noon , and pulled out for the summit again , with a fresh and vigorous step . When we had gone about two hundred yards , and stopped to rest , I glanced to the left while I was lighting my pipe , and in the distance detected a long worm of black smoke crawling lazily up the steep mountain . Of course that was the locomotive . We propped ourselves on our elbows at once , to gaze , for we had never seen a mountain railway yet .