noon
Now we have got the p ` ints of the compass in our minds once more , and ' t will be our own faults if we let anything turn them topsy-turvy ag ` in , as has just happened . My name is not Hurry Harry , if this be not the very spot where the land-hunters camped the last summer , and passed a week . See I yonder are the dead bushes of their bower , and here is the spring . Much as I like the sun , boy , I 've no occasion for it to tell me it is noon ; this stomach of mine is as good a time-piece as is to be found in the colony , and it already p ` ints to half-past twelve . So open the wallet , and let us wind up for another six hours ' run . '' At this suggestion , both set themselves about making the preparations necessary for their usual frugal but hearty meal . We will profit by this pause in the discourse to give the reader some idea of the appearance of the men , each of whom is destined to enact no insignificant part in our legend .