Then he called Miki and tied the end of a worn rope around his neck, after which he fastened the other end of this rope around the neck of Neewa.
Thus he had the cub and the pup on the same yard-long halter.

Taking each of the twain by the scruff of the neck he carried them to the canoe and placed them in the nest he had made of Noozak's hide.
"Now you youngsters be good," he warned.

"We're going to aim at forty miles to-day to make up for the time we lost yesterday." As the canoe shot out a shaft of sunlight broke through the sky low in the east..