noon
`` Ah , I see , '' said Cadman Sahib . `` The circus is a hard life , '' Skag said . That was a kind of a feast day ... . At noon the natives had the tiger up in sunlight , caged in bamboo . Skag presently came into a startling kind of joy to hear his friend make an offer to buy the beast . Negotiations moved slowly , but the thing was done . That afternoon the journey toward Coldwater Ruins was continued with eight carriers , the tiger swung between them .