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"An' me thinkin' Bill 'ad gone north to Wolver'ampton!" she breathed.

Then she trotted to one side, and to make doubly sure of being followed, she uttered the fiercest challenge she could, just as many a time she had done to make the Dogs pursue her: Grrr-wow-wow-wa-a-a-a-h, and stood still; then ran a little nearer and did it again, and then again much nearer, and repeated her bark, she was so determined that the wolver should follow her.

A month or so later the survivors have learned how to take care of themselves, but in the early summer the wolver knows that there are dens full of little ones all through the hills.

Of course the wolver could see nothing of the Coyote, for the shades were falling.

It was nearly sunrise before the wolver awoke.