midday
I 'll have to cheer him up to-morrow . '' The day began auspiciously . They had lost no dogs during the night , and they swung out upon the trail and into the silence , the darkness , and the cold with spirits that were fairly light . Bill seemed to have forgotten his forebodings of the previous night , and even waxed facetious with the dogs when , at midday , they overturned the sled on a bad piece of trail . It was an awkward mix-up . The sled was upside down and jammed between a tree-trunk and a huge rock , and they were forced to unharness the dogs in order to straighten out the tangle . The two men were bent over the sled and trying to right it , when Henry observed One Ear sidling away .