noon
`` Good night , Diana . '' Wee-tah left them after breakfast , cantering away briskly on his pony , his long hair blowing , Na-che and Jonas shouting laughingly after him . It was a brisk , clear morning , with ribbons of mist blowing across the distant ranges . By noon , their way was leading through scattered growths of stunted cedar and juniper with an occasional gnarled , undersized oak in which grew mistletoe thick-hung with ivory berries . Bear grass and bunch grass dotted the sand . Orioles and robins sang as they foraged for the blue cedar berry . All the afternoon the trees increased in size and when they made camp at night , it was under a giant pine whose kindred stretched in every direction as far as the eye could pierce through the dusk .