midnight
... Ya-ha ! '' for even in those days the hyæna 's manners were just as offensive as they are now . `` Who answers the hyæna ? '' growled Andoo , peering through the midnight dimness at them , and then going to look at the cliff edge . There was Ugh-lomi still telling his story , and the fire getting low , and the scent of the burning hot and strong . Andoo stood on the edge of the chalk cliff for some time , shifting his vast weight from foot to foot , and swaying his head to and fro , with his mouth open , his ears erect and twitching , and the nostrils of his big , black muzzle sniffing . He was very curious , was the cave bear , more curious than any of the bears that live now , and the flickering fire and the incomprehensible movements of the man , let alone the intrusion into his indisputable province , stirred him with a sense of strange new happenings .