From red the sun turned swiftly to gold, and the whole valley was transformed once more into a warm and pulsating glory of life.
For two weeks after this first sunrise in Neewa's life Noozak remained near the ridge and the slough.

Then came the day, when Neewa was eleven weeks old, that she turned her nose toward the distant black forests and began the summer's peregrination.

Neewa's feet had lost their tenderness, and he weighed a good six pounds.

This was pretty good considering that he had only weighed twelve ounces at birth.
From the day when Noozak set off on her wandering TREK Neewa's real adventures began.

In the dark and mysterious caverns of the forests there were places where the snow still lay unsoftened by the sun, and for two days Neewa yearned and whined for the sunlit valley.