noon
He lay still , like a barked log , sun-dappled , in the shadow of the trees . He was thinking . And Eudena had learnt , even when a little girl , that when Ugh-lomi became still like that , jaw-bone on fist , novel things presently began to happen . It was an hour before the thinking was over ; it was noon when the two little savages had found their way to the cliff brow that overhung the bears ' cave . And all the long afternoon they fought desperately with a great boulder of chalk ; trundling it , with nothing but their unaided sturdy muscles , from the gully where it had hung like a loose tooth , towards the cliff top . It was full two yards about , it stood as high as Eudena 's waist , it was obtuse-angled and toothed with flints . And when the sun set it was poised , three inches from the edge , above the cave of the great cave bear .