But this defect, by sticking closely to his business, he remedied with amazing rapidity.

In fact, if his mother had cared to stay awake long enough to watch, she could fairly have seen him grow.

But, of course, this growth was all at his mother's expense, seeing that he had no food except her milk.

So as he grew bigger and fatter, she grew thinner and lanker, till you would hardly have recognized this long, gaunt, white fur bag of bones for the plump beast of the previous autumn.
"But all passes--even an Arctic winter.

The sun began to make short daily trips across the horizon.