Nooning

When the girls went in to dinner the men had finished theirs, and were lounging in the shady yard enjoying their nooning.

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An hour or two passed, and we saw a house in the distance to which we drove,--a humble house, sod-built, like that we had made our nooning in.

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It was the nooning hour, and the men at their limited leisure lay in the sun on the piles of lumber, like lizards.

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Then on to Big Bitter Cottonwood, where we had our nooning among the trees on the wide sandy bed of the stream, which had sunk under ground for many miles, as is the custom of rivers here.

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