noon
The farmers , who were coming twice a day with their teams for ice , complained constantly of the cold ; several of them stopped drawing altogether for the time . Willis also stopped work on Thursday at noon . The people at home knew that we were having a hard time . Grandmother and the girls did all they could for us ; and every day at noon and again at night the old Squire , bundled up in his buffalo-skin coat , drove down to the lake with horse and pung , and brought us a warm meal , packed in a large box with half a dozen hot bricks . Only one who has been chilled through all day can imagine how glad we were to reach that warm camp at night . Indeed , except for the camp , we could never have worked there as we did . It was a log camp , or rather two camps , placed end to end , and you went through the first in order to get into the second , which had no outside door .