Then She Wolf chuckled and went on cleaning the fish, but Dawn ran into the cave and hid herself.
CHAPTER XX
SUNRISE DIGS A CAVE
Sunrise went to the cave of Fish Catch—a young man a few years older than himself, who was so ugly that no woman would have him, and who therefore lived alone. Fish Catch was busy with a net.
“Fish Catch,” said Sunrise, “may I live with you until spring? I will see that you do not lack for food.”
Now in winter when the rivers were frozen people did not have very much use for nets, and Fish Catch consequently was often hard put to it for food. Therefor this proposal met with his entire approval, and he said so.
“But what,” he said, “is the matter with your own cave?”
“It is a small cave at best,” said Sunrise, “and we were crowded.”
Fish Catch laughed cynically. He thought it not unlikely that Dawn had taken a club to Sunrise and driven him away from her. But he was afraid to say so openly.