The otters had not frightened him, because he still measured things by size, and Nekik was not half as big as Kazan.

But the bear was a monster beside which Kazan would have stood a mere pygmy.

He was big.

If nature was taking this way of introducing Baree to the fact that there were more important creatures in the forests than dogs and wolves and owls and crayfish, she was driving the point home with a little more than necessary emphasis.

For Wakayoo, the bear, weighed six hundred pounds if he weighed an ounce.