midnight
`` Well , '' he added , after five minutes of acute listening , `` I guess we may give over jacking for to-night . That first cry of yours was enough to set a regiment of deer scampering . I 'm only half mad after all at your losing a chance at such a splendid buck . It was something to see him as he stooped to drink in the glare of the jack , a midnight forest picture such as one wants to remember . Long may he flourish ! We would n't have started out to rid him of his glorious life if we were n't half-starved on flapjacks and ends of pork . Let 's get back to camp !