noon
When we get settled I 'm going to practice till I can toss a flapjack up the cabin chimney and catch it coming down on the outside . See ? '' Up hill and down was it the next day , again . Shortly after noon they came to a high ridge , covered with brush in spots , and in spots bare . The three men climbed on , for a view ahead , but Charley and Billy branched off , to a place that looked lower . Then , suddenly , Charley caught sight of it -- a great grayish-brown beast , lumbering along a slope just ahead , and making for the top not far before . Sometimes he was in the brush , sometimes in the open ; but Charley knew him at once .