About noon
They now bade farewell to the kind but unseen people of the cottage , and after the man had called their attention to a high , pyramid-shaped mountain on the opposite side of the Valley , and told them how to travel in order to reach it , they again started upon their journey . They followed the course of a broad stream and passed several more pretty cottages ; but of course they saw no one , nor did any one speak to them . Fruits and flowers grew plentifully all about , and there were many of the delicious damas that the people of Voe were so fond of . About noon they stopped to allow Jim to rest in the shade of a pretty orchard , and while they plucked and ate some of the cherries and plums that grew there a soft voice suddenly said to them : `` There are bears near by . Be careful . '' The Wizard got out his sword at once , and Zeb grabbed the horse-whip . Dorothy climbed into the buggy , although Jim had been unharnessed from it and was grazing some distance away .