noon
South America , with the wonders of the Amazon and the pampas and the high fauna of the Andes , is there . Our own continent also contributes largely , for the Rockies and the Selkirks still hold wonders for the eyes of youth . Even if we could contribute no wild beasts , there would still be ample reward for the boy in viewing our Indians , cow-punchers and real live scouts , such as our border-life alone can furnish . It was as a feature of such a motley procession as this that Black Bruin 's van was daily rattled over the paving-stones and finally took its place each day in the mammoth tent behind the chain , in readiness for the noon feeding . His van always followed that of a den of gray timber wolves and was in turn followed by the great white polar bear . Black Bruin often wondered why his large cousin from the Arctic Circle spent so much of his time swaying to and fro . It was a queer trick that he had , whenever he was not in his tank of water , of forever swaying back and forth , back and forth .