midnight
Again I heard the thudding of heavy feet , the shouts of the riders , a few loud snorts , followed by the silence ; and when the boys came back in half an hour we rolled up once more and speedily were asleep . To pass the night in peace ! not at all . Near midnight my dreams were mixed with earthquakes and thunder , and slowly I waked to feel that ponderous bellow running along the ground , and setting my legs a-quiver . -LSB- Illustration -RSB- '' _ Row-ow-ow-ow _ '' it came , and shook me into full wakefulness to realize that that awful brute was back again . He could not resist the glorious , alluring chance to come and get awfully mad over that `` bluggy milk . '' Now he was in camp , close at hand ; the whole sky seemed blocked out and the trees a-shiver as he came on . ''