noon
`` Well , we 'll have to go back , that is all there is to it , '' remarked the doctor 's son after a pause , during which they looked across the rocks in perplexity . `` I thought sure we could go this way , but it seems as if we ca n't . '' To climb down the rocks was as great a task as it had been to climb up , and by the time they reached the bottom all were thoroughly hungry . It now lacked but an hour and a half of noon . `` We 'll never get to camp by dinner-time , '' declared Snap . `` And I 'm not going to do without breakfast and dinner , too . I move we light a fire and cook those rabbits .