noon
Many as good a Whig as I am has been forced to wear a red coat ere this , or go barebacked . But why do n't you knot the halter ? In common justice you should either hang me or feed me . 'T is hard upon noon , and I breakfasted early . '' `` Fall in ! '' said the big man ; and so I was marched quickly aside from the road and into the denser thicketing of the wood . Here my captors blindfolded me , and after spinning me around to make me lose the compass points , hurried me away to their encampment which was inland from the stream , though not far , for I could still hear the distance-minished splashing of the water .