noon
All appeared to be active , and working into each others hands ; and I confess that , as I looked on , I envied them , and wished that I had been along with them ; but I could not bear the idea of obeying any orders given by your father ; and this alone prevented my joining them , and making my excuses for what I had done and said the previous night . I therefore swallowed some more birds ' eggs raw , and sat down in the sun , looking at them as they worked . `` I soon perceived that the carpenter had commenced operations . The frame of this cabin was , with the assistance of your father , before it was noon , quite complete and put up ; and then they all went down to the bathing place , where the boat was lying with her bottom beaten out . They commenced taking her to pieces and saving all the nails ; the other men carried up the portions of the boat as they were ripped off , to where the frame of the cabin had been raised . I saw your mother go up with a load in her hand , which I believed to be the nails taken from the boat . In a couple of hours the boat was in pieces and carried up , and then your father and most of the men went up to assist the carpenter .