midday
A day as hot and still as this one was a regular weather breeder ; there ought to be rain before night . `` Maybe so , '' she said ; `` but looking 's not going to bring rain . '' Nevertheless the squire continued to look . There was really nothing to worry about ; still at midday he did not eat much dinner , and before his wife was half through with hers he was back on the gallery . His paper was cast aside and he was watching . The original buzzard -- or , anyhow , he judged it was the first one he had seen -- was swinging back and forth in great pendulum swings , but closer down toward the swamp -- closer and closer -- until it looked from that distance as though the buzzard flew almost at the level of the tallest snags there . And on beyond this first buzzard , coursing above him , were other buzzards .