Being three-quarters dog, food was more necessary to Kazan than to his mate.

Nature has fitted the wolf-breed for famine, and in ordinary temperature Gray Wolf could have lived for a fortnight without food.

At sixty degrees below zero she could exist a week, perhaps ten days.

Only thirty hours had passed sinee they had devoured the last of the frozen rabbit, and she was quite satisfied to remain in their snug retreat.
But Kazan was hungry.

He began to hunt in the face of the wind, traveling toward the burned plain.