noon
Jack got breakfast in the wagon , and we ate the hot cakes and warmed-over grouse with a good relish . Then we loaded in what was left of the horsefeed , and started . It was impossible to keep warm even by walking , but we plodded on and made the best of it . The road was hilly and stony ; but by noon we had got beyond the rain , and for the rest of the way it was dry even if cold . The hills among which we were winding grew constantly higher , and the quantity of pine timber upon their summits greater . Just as dusk was beginning to creep down we came around one which might fairly have been called a small mountain , and saw Rapid City spread out before us , the largest town we had seen since leaving Yankton . We skirted around it , and came to camp under another hill and near a big stone quarry a half-mile west of town .