noon
If only we had brought some junket tablets ! '' With the exception of this incident the morning was quiet . Tish and Bill talked prohibition , which he believed in , and the tin pans on the pack-horse clattered , and we got higher all the time , and rode through waterfalls and along the edge of death . By noon I did not much care if the horses fell over or not . The skin was off me in a number of places , and my horse did not like me , and showed it by nipping back at my leg here and there . At eleven o'clock , riding through a valley on a trail six inches wide , Bill 's horse stepped on a hornets ' nest . The insects were probably dazed at first , but by the time Tish 's horse arrived they were prepared , and the next thing we knew Tish 's horse was flying up the mountain-side as if it had gone crazy , and Bill was shouting to us to stop .