nearly noon
Fortunately the breakfast tailings proved abundant , and the dog went off to assist a friend of his in making sundry interesting smell analyses along the gate posts of the stockade . Chapter 76 . The Duel This was temporary relief , but left no suggestion of complete escape . He lay there till nearly noon suffering more and more from the cramped position and thirst , and utterly puzzled as to the next move . `` When ye do n't like whar ye air , git up without any fuss , and go whar ye want to be , '' was what Sylvanne once said to him , and it came to Rolf with something like a comic shock . The soldiers were busy in the woods and around the forges . In half an hour it would be noon and they might come back to eat .