noon
`` I should be pleased to take ye , if ye 'd like to go . '' So we wound up our lines , and took our basket and clams and went round to meet the boat . I felt like rowing , and took the oars while Kate was mending her sinker and the cap'n was busy with a snarled line . `` It 's pretty hot , '' said he , presently , `` but I see a breeze coming in , and the clouds seem to be thickening ; I guess we shall have it cooler ` long towards noon . It looked last night as if we were going to have foul weather , but the scud seemed to blow off , and it was as pretty a morning as ever I see . ` A growing moon chaws up the clouds , ' my gra n'ther used to say . He was as knowing about the weather as anybody I ever come across ; ` most always hit it just about right .