And this time Muskwa was not tired when they reached the ledge.

Two days had made a big change in the little tan-faced cub.

He was not so round and puffy.

And he was stronger--a great deal stronger; he was becoming hardened, and under Thor's strenuous tutelage he was swiftly graduating from cubhood to young bearhood.
It was evident that Thor had followed this ledge at some previous time.

He knew where he was going.