about ten o'clock
He climbed a steep slope , then went down the shale side of a dip , and in a small basin hidden at the foot of a mountain came to a soft green meadow where the dog-tooth violet , with its slender stem , its two lily-like leaves , its single cluster of five-petalled flowers , and its luscious , bulbous root grew in great profusion . And here all through the night he dug and ate . Muskwa , who had filled himself on spring beauty roots , was not hungry , and as the day had been a restful one for him , outside of his fighting , he found this night filled with its brilliant stars quite enjoyable . The moon came up about ten o'clock , and it was the biggest , and the reddest , and the most beautiful moon Muskwa had seen in his short life . It rolled up over the peaks like a forest fire , and filled all the Rocky Mountains with a wonderful glow . The basin , in which there were perhaps ten acres of meadow , was lighted up almost like day . The little lake at the foot of the mountain glimmered softly , and the tiny stream that fed it from the melting snows a thousand feet above shot down in glistening cascades that caught the moonlight like rivulets of dull polished diamonds .