midday
`` No , I guess not ; I s ` pose he joins in now and then , but it 's the Easterner that leads off . '' `` Jee - _ ee _ - rusa _ lem _ , my happy home ! '' Lysander threw his head back against the casement of the door , and broke into the evening stillness with his heavy , unmanageable bass . Mrs. Sproul came to the door to `` take the baby in out of the night air ; '' the air indoors being presumably a remnant of midday which had been carefully preserved for the evening use of infants . The next morning Melissa carried the pick to the workmen at the tunnel . A fog had drifted in during the night , and was still tangled in the tops of the sycamores . The soft , humid air was sweet with the earthy scents of the cañon , and the curled fallen leaves of the live oaks along the flume path were golden-brown with moisture .