about noon
`` Never , '' returned his son , with slow promptness . `` Dentists do n't have to figger on ilecloth . '' `` Say , Yan , '' said Sam aside , `` guess _ you _ better tackle Da about the dam . Kind o ' sot up about ye this mornin ' ; your eddication has softened him some , an ' it 'll last till about noon , I jedge . Strike while the iron is hot . '' So after breakfast Yan commenced : `` Mr. Raften , the creek 's running dry . We want to make a pond for the cattle to drink , but we ca n't make a dam without two big logs across .