One day Mukoki came to the Post with a little bundle of fur, and most of the things he got in exchange for it, mother says, were for the kid.

He reached the store at night and expected to leave for home the next noon, which would bring him to his camp before dark.

But something delayed him and he didn't get started until the morning after.

Meanwhile, late in the afternoon of the day when he was to have been home, his wife bundled up the kid and they set out to meet him.

Well--" A weird howl from the captive wolf interrupted Wabi for a moment.
"Well, they went on and on, and of course did not meet him.