about noon
Why you live in a shanty , while your corn is in a frame building , puzzles me . ' ` Ay , ' assented the settler , ` but the frame barn is paving the way for the frame house , I calculate : Benny 'll have both ; and for the present I 'd sooner have my crops comfortable than myself ; ' a persuasion which Robert afterwards found to be rooted in common sense , for the Canadian climate permits not of stacks or ricks wintering in the open air . After his usual unmannerly fashion , Mr. Logan bade no farewell , but shouldered his gun at some hour prior to daybreak , and knapsack on back , left the sleeping camp by the light of a young moon . One day it happened that about noon , while Arthur was ` brushing ' at a short distance from the shanty , he noticed a pack of grouse among the underwood within shot . Dropping his axe , he ran home for the gun , which stood loaded in one corner . It was not altogether the sportsman 's organ of destructiveness -LRB- for he had never forgotten little Jay 's lesson on that head -RRB- , but probably a growing dislike to the constant diet of pork , that urged him to an unrelenting pursuit . Cautiously he crept through the thickets , having wafted an unavailing sigh for the pointer he had left at Dunore , his companion over many a fallow and stubble field , who would greatly have simplified this business .