noon
Go on ! '' Pinky naturally went on the way he was headed , and that chanced to be in a direction away from Cowboy Jack 's home , where the Bunkers were then visiting . Nor did the pony bear her toward the place where the moving picture company was at work . They went on , and noon came , and both Pinky and the little girl were hungry and thirsty . Pinky smelled water -- or saw it . He insisted on starting off to one side of the narrow trail they had been following . Rose was afraid to leave that trail , for it seemed to her that a path along which people had ridden enough to make a deep rut in the sward must be a path that was more or less used all the time .