midday
Did great scalp business ! '' Mukoki had not done chuckling to himself even when they reached camp . Scarcely ten minutes were taken in eating breakfast . Snow was already beginning to fall , and if the hunters took up their trail at once their tracks would undoubtedly be entirely obliterated by midday , which was the best possible thing that could happen for them in the Woonga country . On the other hand , Wabi was anxious to follow back over the wolf-trail before the snow shut it in . There was no danger of their becoming separated and lost , for it was agreed that Rod and Mukoki should travel straight up the frozen river . Wabi would overtake them before nightfall .