eleven at night
It is not very palatable and you may imagine how Tartarin-Sancho enjoyed it . Tartarin de Tarascon combined this with several other sensible methods of training . For instance , to habituate himself to long marches he would go round his morning constitutional seven or eight times , sometimes at a brisk walk , sometimes at the trot with two pebbles in his mouth . Then to accustom himself to nocturnal chills and the mists of dawn , he went into the garden and stayed there until ten or eleven at night , alone with his rifle , on watch behind the baobab . Finally , for as long as the menagerie remained in Tarascon , those hat hunters who had stayed late at Costecalde 's could see in the shadows , as they passed the Place du Château , a figure pacing up and down behind the cages ... it was Tartarin training himself to listen unmoved to the roaring of lions in the African night . While Tartarin was preparing himself by these strenuous methods , all Tarascon had its eyes on him . Nothing else was of interest .