Tarzan of the Apes

e tribe started slowly back thro

had fallen, for the people of Ke

und in abundance, with wild pineapple, and occasionally small mammals, birds, eggs, reptiles, and insec

the higher branches, for if she respected their number and their sharp fan

orged silently through the thick jungle. He hurled a pineapple at the ancient enemy o

eat lips in a hideous snarl that wrinkled her bristling snout in serried

pes and sounded her fierce, shrill challenge. And from the safety of his

d then the great cat turned into the jungle, which

Tublat, so was he not therefore a mighty fighter? Now would he track down

akedness with CLOTHES for he had learned from his picture books that all MEN w

gnia of the superiority of MAN over all other animals, for sure

t no longer resemble hideous Histah, the snake; but now he was proud of his sleek skin for it betokened his descent from a mighty race, and the conflicting desires to go naked

sing of Sabor, Tarzan’s head was filled with his great scheme for slay

y had other and more immediate in

he trees stood motionless as though in paralyzed expectancy of som

d moaning. Nearer and nearer it approach

ty hand. Farther and farther toward the ground they inclined, and st

t. A vivid and blinding light flashed from the whirling, inky clouds above. The deep cannonade of roari

t trees. The lightning, darting and flashing through the blackness,

ash in a thousand pieces among the surrounding trees, carrying down numberless branc

hurtled through the wildly waving verdure, carrying death and destruc

ivering fear. In constant danger from falling trunks and branches and paralyzed by the vivid flashi

ning. The wind ceased, the sun sho

ned in the splendor of the returning day. And, so — as Nature forgot, her childre

f CLOTHES. How snug he would have been beneath the heavy coat o

k up the greater portion of his time, but always when journeying through the forest he kept his rop

lunge for freedom toppled Tarzan from the overhanging limb where h

dy, and, seeing only the easy prey of a young ape, he l

o take up the shock. He was on his feet in an instant and, leaping with the agility of the m

perience the limitations as well as t

who had thus dragged him from his perch the outcome might have been ver

e he went forth purposely to hunt, and lie in wait among the dense folia

did not want such insignificant game. It would take

lithe sinews rolling beneath shimmering hi

ow trail. Her head was high in ever alert attention; her

of the Apes crouched upon his limb, the coi

Sabor passed beneath. One stride beyond she took — a seco

tect the origin of the swishing sound of the rope, it settled about her neck. With a quick jerk Tarzan snapped

was tr

from experience. The lioness had taken but half her second bound when she felt the rope tighten about her neck; her body turned completely over in t

crotch of two mighty branches, he found that dragging the mighty, struggling, clawing, biting, sc

he braced her huge paws nothing less than Tanto

en placed upon her. Screaming with rage she suddenly charged, leaping high into the air toward Ta

raging captive. For a moment Sabor hung half across the branch, while

but Sabor had now found that it was only a slender cord that held her, and grasping it i

naught, so he sat there screaming at the roaring cr

crouched and sprang at the dancing sprite above her, but might as well

uit that spread soft and sticky over the snarling face of his enemy, he swung rapidly through th

nd so considerable swagger that he quite impressed even his bitterest