About noon
Here and there a mountain bird , dislodged from its perch , would hurl itself out into space , giving the girls a start , and threatening , for the moment , their equilibrium . But they did much better than the guide had hoped for . Greatly to his relief , he was not obliged to go to the rescue of a Meadow-Brook Girl that day . About noon , however , Margery Brown got a blister on her right heel , and Hazel turned one of her ankles . This put an end to the mountain climbing for the time being , but not to the hanging-on . The girls perched themselves behind rocks for support while the guardian was dressing the sprain and the blister . Janus went on to look over the trail and pick out the easy places .