noon
But I did n't go down . I climbed into the rigging , and stared at him . This , as I was rejoiced to observe , so exasperated him that he stood on his head on a pile of boards , in order to pacify himself . The first train for Rivermouth left at noon . After a late breakfast on board the Typhoon , our trunks were piled upon a baggage-wagon , and ourselves stowed away in a coach , which must have turned at least one hundred corners before it set us down at the railway station . In less time than it takes to tell it , we were shooting across the country at a fearful rate -- now clattering over a bridge , now screaming through a tunnel ; here we cut a flourishing village in two , like a knife , and here we dived into the shadow of a pine forest . Sometimes we glided along the edge of the ocean , and could see the sails of ships twinkling like bits of silver against the horizon ; sometimes we dashed across rocky pasture-lands where stupid-eyed cattle were loafing .