CHAPTER NINE.
Neither Thor nor Muskwa went near the caribou meat after the big fight.
Thor was in no condition to eat, and Muskwa was so filled with excitement and trembling that he could not swallow a mouthful.

He continued to worry a strip of black hide, snarling and growling in his puny way, as though finishing what the other had begun.
For many minutes the grizzly stood with his big head drooping, and the blood gathered in splashes under him.

He was facing down the valley.

There was almost no wind--so little that it was scarcely possible to tell from which direction it came.

Eddies of it were caught in the coulees, and higher up about the shoulders and peaks it blew stronger.