noon
Thus it was the edge of spring and the forests were green , when they turned up the tributary river , and followed in the trail of Timmendiquas . Now they noticed this morning as they advanced that it was growing quite cold again . They had also come so much further North that the spring was less advanced than on the Ohio . Before noon a little snow was flying , but they did not mind it . It merely whipped their blood and seemed to give them new strength for their dangerous venture . But Henry was troubled . He was sorry that they had not seen an enemy in the man Bird whose name was to become an evil one on the border .