About
noon
`` I 'll be glad of it . '' `` Well , get to work , and some time we 'll see what we will see , '' answered the captain ; and there the talk was dropped . It was a windy and cloudy day , and a majority of the passengers were glad enough to remain in the cabin during the trip up the river . About noon it began to thunder and the sky grew very black . `` We are up against a storm now , '' said Jones to Randy . `` We 'll have to take in some of the bunting . '' The order was issued , and Randy set to work , with the other deckhands , to strip the decks .