noon
But for the shade afforded by the leaves , they would have felt it very distressing . Swartboy prognosticated favourably from this . The great heat would be more likely than anything else to send the elephant to his favourite sleeping-place under the cool shady cover of the cameel-doorn . It was now quite noon . He could not be long in coming , thought they . Sure enough he came , and soon , too . They had not been twenty minutes on their perch , when they heard a strange , rumbling noise , which they knew proceeded from the stomach of an elephant .