noon
`` All right . We want some bread and meat , and our pipes , and a little bag or two , and two or three kite-strings , and some of these new-fangled things they call lucifer matches . I tell you , many 's the time I wished I had some when I was in there before . '' A trifle after noon the boys borrowed a small skiff from a citizen who was absent , and got under way at once . When they were several miles below `` Cave Hollow , '' Tom said : `` Now you see this bluff here looks all alike all the way down from the cave hollow -- no houses , no wood-yards , bushes all alike . But do you see that white place up yonder where there 's been a landslide ? Well , that 's one of my marks .