noon
An ' mebbe I might pick up a moose . What d' you say we turn in ? '' Smoke spent the morning in camp , sewing dog-moccasins and repairing harnesses . At noon he cooked a meal for two , ate his share , and began to look for Shorty 's return . An hour later he strapped on his snow-shoes and went out on his partner 's trail . The way led up the bed of the stream , through a narrow gorge that widened suddenly into a moose-pasture . But no moose had been there since the first snow of the preceding fall .