It was the old instinct of his fathers that made him respond by caressing Gray Wolf's face with his tongue.

Then Gray Wolf's jaws opened, and she laughed in short panting breaths, as if she had been hard run.

She was happy, and as they heard a little snuffling sound from between the rocks, Kazan wagged his tail, and Gray Wolf darted back to her young.
The babyish cry and its effect upon Gray Wolf taught Kazan his first lesson in fatherhood.

Instinct again told him that Gray Wolf could not go down to the hunt with him now--that she must stay at the top of the Sun Rock.

So when the moon rose he went down alone, and toward dawn returned with a big white rabbit between his jaws.