“Take her yourself.”
“Tell me one thing,” said Sunrise, “does she throw looks and words to these young men.”
“She does not,” said She Wolf.
“Then,” said Sunrise, “I will not kill them, and when the spring comes, I will hollow a cave and take Dawn to live in it. But now the ground is like stone and no man may dig it. Furthermore it is customary to wait until the spring. Let these things be understood.”
When Sunrise saw Dawn coming up from the river with her catch, he knew that she must be cold. Therefore he threw sticks and brush upon the fire so that it shot upward and gave out delicious warmth.
“Behold!” said Dawn, “I have caught three fishes, one for each. But they are very little.”
“You are a mighty fisher,” said Sunrise, “and when we have a cave of our own, you shall do the fishing and the hunting, while I lie in the sun or before the fire.”
Thus in a bantering voice Sunrise proposed to Dawn.