noon
Farmer Howe and his daughter spent a refreshing night at old Purley 's tavern at Dunville , and at daybreak next morning , after a very early breakfast , they resumed their journey . And again , as usual , Lyon Berners consulted his map and his compass . He now found that his most direct route lay through a thick forest , between two mountain ridges . They travelled all the morning , and as usual stopped at noon for rest and food for themselves and their four-footed friends . In the afternoon they set forth again , and travelled until they reached Iceville , a considerable village situated high upon one of the table-lands of the Blue Ridge . In this town there were three taverns . Farmer Howe and his daughter put up at the most humble of the trio .