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Toby pointed to the tracks of a small animal in the snow. It was mid-forenoon when they suddenly came upon a cabin in the midst of a clearing at the edge of the forest, and looking out upon the water. "Well, now, and here we be safe and sound and in good time!" announced Skipper Zeb.
This, indeed, seemed to be the fact when Ruth awoke from her sound sleep at mid-forenoon. She might not have aroused then had there not been an insistent tapping on the door. "Ja? Herein!" exclaimed Ruth, not too sleepy to remember her German. A broad face surmounted by a cap, then the woman quite a motherly looking person appeared.
His progress became more hesitating. Mid-forenoon found him only half a mile from the home of Nanette and the baby. His keen nostrils caught the faint tang of smoke in the air. He did not follow it up, but circled like a wolf, coming up stealthily and uncertainly until at last he looked out into the little clearing where a new world had come into existence for him.
'This here frayed foliage which I hold in my hand, he says, 'is popularly known as the mid-forenoon refreshment. It's got imitation salad dressing on it to make it more tasty. Later on there'll be more of the same, but the big doings will be pulled off at dinner to-night. You just oughter see us at dinner, he says with a bitter laugh.
Aunt Sue's snowbank had circled the horizon and was rising steadily toward the zenith. The sky does not give up its moisture readily this year, else the snow prophets had had their way weeks ago. The morning after that night on which the young moon drowned should have seen the air whirling with white flakes, but only in mid-forenoon did the clouds give up, and then grudgingly.
I am boring in a new place this week, and it looks promising. We are down a hundred and twenty feet already." They put on their outer garments and left the cabin. Although this was summer weather, there was a sting of frost in the air even as it neared mid-forenoon. But the sun was strangely overcast, and that might account for the drop in temperature.
Those mid-forenoon lunches of Mother's good rye bread and butter, with crullers or gingerbread, and in August a fresh green cucumber and a sweating jug of water fresh from the spring sweating, not as we did, because it was hot, but because it was cold, partaken under an ash or a maple tree how sweet and fragrant the memory of it all is to me!
Young Carmody awoke to the realization of another day. The sun of mid-forenoon cast a golden rhombus on the thick carpet, and through the open windows the autumnal air, stirred by just the suspicion of a breeze, was wafted deliciously cool against his burning cheeks and throbbing temples. He gazed about the familiar confines of the room in puffy-eyed stupidity.
The sun beat down into the canon, for it was now mid-forenoon, and, the breeze having died, the party of riders began to suffer from the heat. "I'm melting," declared Bess. "But that's a small matter. I was getting too fat, anyway." "Listen!" commanded Rhoda suddenly. They heard then a growing sound like the rolling of many barrels at a distance. It was not thunder. The sky was as clear as a bell.
A gray dawn was breaking, and this is the coldest and bleakest hour of the day. With dawn both wind and cold increased, until by mid-forenoon half a gale was blowing. "We're makin' fine headway," said Toby. "We'll be getting to Double Up Cove by twelve o'clock, whatever." "I'm wishin' 'twere a bit calmer," observed Skipper Zeb, looking critically at the sky, "but there's no signs of un."
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