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Thus in a bantering voice Sunrise proposed to Dawn.

And she turned away her face and was silenced. And thus she accepted him. She Wolf took the fish and went aside to clean them.

"It will be in the spring," said Sunrise, "when the earth is soft for digging and the leaves are green on the trees. Are you willing?"

She turned and looked him full in the face.

"I am willing," she said. Her eyes clung to his and his to hers. He tried to