About noon
`` Maybe we had better set a guard , at night , '' suggested his brother . `` Oh , we do n't want to lose any sleep , if we do n't have to . '' It had grown colder and colder , and now the wind swept around them in anything but a pleasant fashion . About noon came a flurry of snow . `` I do n't like that , '' said Dick , shaking his head and looking up at the darkening sky . `` Oh , let 's hope it wo n't amount to much , Dick , '' replied Sam . The traveling was steadily upward , for they had to pass over a high hill to get into the valley leading to Lion Head .