All this time the babies, curled like hedgehogs, and twitching, had slept nose to nose in a sheltered place. They gripped each other with tiny paws, and would not let go.
“See,” said Maku, thro her tears, “the little ones are already friends.”
“Let them be so,” said She Wolf, “and in order that we may not all perish, let us all go to your cave to live. You shall tend the cave and look to the children, and I will be the man and find food, for I am good at hunting.”
So they went to Maku’s cave.
“What is the girl’s name?” asked She Wolf.
“We—she is not yet named,” said Maku.
“The man’s name is Sunrise,” said She Wolf, “because he came with the sun. Let us therefore call the girl Dawn, for I am minded to think that when they are well grown the sunrise will still follow the dawn.”
