about noon
`` Oh , he 'll sure enough think it , '' sez I , `` when we swing around Mount Savage an ' he gets to see home through Starlight 's dust . '' `` When it comes to that , I 'll bet he wo n't be complainin ' o ' the dullness of the business he 's been on . Now just practice thinkin ' a while . '' We watered about noon at a little snow stream on the opposite side of old Savage ; but we et our vittles on hoss back an ' we did n't waste any time on the waterin ' . I figured we 'd scaled up about fifty miles , an ' the pinto was still tonguin ' his bit an ' waitin ' for somethin' interestin ' to turn up . Starlight was gettin ' some disgusted with the monotony . We rode on for another hour an ' then Barbie began to ride a little .