A Random "Jungle Tales Of Tarzan" Cutup

Reasonable assurance of finding him. Momaya, being of a short temper distance a lion answered. It was very real and, yet, he did not know. Held his wrists. Very slowly they were giving. He might free his prominently--an occasion, and the only one connected with the rope, blackness of the interior. Bukawai replaced the saplings and seizing saw the great store of honey they brought with them his rage subsided. Rending at their prey.

Being, the Creator of all things. As he traveled he reviewed, tarzan witnessed strange things that night, none of which he

Against the witch-doctor, and then Tibo would hold his breath in foot and the knuckles of one great hand were sometimes plain enough for might discover for any of them a death equally horrible to that which terrifying things than lions and leopards--horrifying, nameless things the men of Mbonga, the chief, met Numa with ready spears and screams of contended for the kingship of a tribe far distant, and now battered, what might happen should the great carnivora of the jungle turn their tarzan laughed. "It could not harm Pamba, the rat," he said. "It is friends among the sullen beasts whom he had thought without sentiment. Gomangani, no Tarmangani could do them."

Long before they reached the cage, they heard the roaring of a great members of the GENUS HOMO. Tarzan envied Teeka. It was true that Gazan pursuit; the caterpillars he always caught, and sometimes the beetles; With life, when there were no sounds because there were no ears to hear. Tantor made a little sound in his throat and curled his trunk upward "Kill the white ape!" screamed Gozan, "he is no ape at all; but a the village. Not until then did they gain courage to pursue him, and the chief, that this great white demon of the jungle was naught other down toward Rabba Kega it buzzed and the black man heard it, saw it, that Tantor's great tusks deal death to Tantor's enemies.

Toward the north, and though she paused often to listen, breathlessly, challenge. Faintly and from afar came the roar of an answering lion. He carefully re-covered it, arranging the earth as neatly as had the the paths almost within sight of the village and from the midst of chief. The latter summoned Momaya, threatening her with the direst but it was a surprised Gomangani who saw the mighty elephant come to a come; then they looked at one another for a minute. "Come," said the she fled past the fighters toward the opposite side of the clearing, feet, or, at least, almost. At any rate he felt no fatigue long after huge bull ape, maddened by solitude and defeat. A week before he had little black boy farther and farther from the stamping grounds of the and so the ape-man swung off into the jungle, his new rope coiled over was preparing to make a new stand. His lips were flecked with foam, into the flesh of his forearm before the ape-man could snatch it away, lattice. With wide eyes Tibo saw it sag and rock. Not for long, he it hadn't been for their black faces, their hideously disfigured quite unexpectedly an idea popped into Tarzan's head. In following out with his photographs and Bertillon measurements, equipped to recognize can kill him. Come down, Goro, great coward, and fight with Tarzan. He knew that Numa could not climb a tree, he knew that there existed in accomplish this, the great beast would have been upon him in an angry snarl as he leaped into the hut after the terror-stricken madness seizes them, there is no jungle denizen so bold and fierce as close to her hairy breast--a wee something which squirmed and wriggled. Him, and listening for the sound of the great wings from above, for to forest was dense, swung from one swaying branch to another, or leaped hearts and the entrails of the panther; I eat young babies for it was just as he was about to spring forward with a savage roar that a very wise, too. They should know."

Raced to the protection of their chief; but this weird jungle demon tarzan did not pause. He had set out to approach and examine God and eye upon the ape-man lest he be preparing to suddenly run amuck. Tarzan had done--things which apes did not do and could not understand. Barterers, and in the end it partly repaid her, for a compromise hyena across the crater, while the first gnawed at the rotting face of they had worn smooth the bark upon its upper surface.

Huddling himself closer to the bole of the great tree beneath which he "We are going to get Teeka," replied the ape-man, "and kill the bull boulder.

Kid. Digging it up, he ascended into a tree and proceeded to satisfy aggravating frequency.

Sickness surged upward to his throat. He saw a tangle of almost the ape-man went first to the spot where he had cached the body of the should be lying up asleep beside his last night's kill by now; but Numa rift in the rocky roof above him, Tibo could see a few stars, and once for an edible beetle had made more impression upon Mumga than all the scattered to right and left before the menacing growls of the great stories of this bad, white forest god. It was he who had slain Kulonga slaver on the drooping jowls, and the great fangs agape to seize and attitude in no sense indicated hatred. It was but the instinctive urge thus, with a dream, came the first faint tinge of a knowledge of fear, blood-stained face to the blue of the equatorial heavens, gave voice to thing which troubled him. He could not quite reconcile it to his the branch from which he had cast it.

And they might even be skeptical as to the magic of another; but there hungry lion. But though the light clouds raced so swiftly, the jungle loneliness, thought Tarzan, as with a bound he landed amongst them. Trail. Tarzan seized and broke a small tree limb, and at the sudden yes, Tarzan had found God, and he spent the whole day in attributing to sheeta beneath rending fangs and filling all the forest with the wild for there was no dance that night.

Where he would hear the Mangani talking among themselves. Thus he upon Sheeta. His long fighting fangs buried themselves in the white others of the women of the tribe, and little Tibo had been playing at numa and worry him," said Tarzan. "Worry him until he charges. Lead the search for the spoor of game. Bending low, sometimes resting for a sounds which he never heard until after Kudu had sought his lair below it was well past midnight before Tarzan even could begin to see the end figure upon its shaking feet.

Next came Teeka, prompted by curiosity. At her side skipped little passage and drove them into it. Then he dragged a rude lattice into children of the village set up a most frightful lamentation, working of disloyalty he mentioned to Gunto what Tarzan had suggested about the and as he watched her that afternoon, and wondered, a young bull ape laughing aloud as he ever had, as he contemplated the funny little sights of suffering and cruelty. He, himself, was cruel. All the the idea appealed to the other bulls. "We will all go," they cried. Their companions as mysteriously and completely as though they had been the snarling jaws. Then it settled--clean and true about the tawny had last seen her, caressing Taug, the more the thing within his breast identical lines, yet he did not abandon his intention, and a moment make some magic, too. We will see who makes the best magic. Sit down, paralyzed while the ape-man stooped and gathered up the lion skin. Crashed through the leafy verdure of the tree tops. The smaller again he poised, statuesque, listening. The warrior was young and hunting of man--the wind. It was blowing in the same direction that lifelike--they saw that in the brief instant of the charge; but beneath gazan. They were filled with wonder like the others; but Teeka did not point from where the apes were visible to him. There were a dozen or and beads, together with a piece of copper wire from admiring and through which she had passed to go for naught? She tried to steel lain dormant for some time following the painful mauling he had gomangani evidently had slain one, and as they were eating of the flesh close above the black man he halted, well concealed by leafy branch and recalled the strange things that Tarzan once had suggested to him--that tarzan of the Apes waited until the upcut of a wicked tusk would have beneath him a huge, gray-black bulk forging steadily along the jungle would thrust a snarling countenance from between the vines and creepers. Their pressure.

Animal, and then he saw the second beast spring for the devil-god's the passage of fierce beasts, the sheen of opalesque eyes flaming in the center of the clearing, and there she sat hugging her balu and of course he did not pronounce God as you or I would pronounce His effort to tear it from her screaming balu.

As Horta grunted and charged, slashing the sturdy jungle patriarch with saw was the naked man-thing running toward the farther trees with the dead sire, Taug, Teeka's mighty mate, had been hunting a mile to the medicine seem poor medicine. All this Bukawai never could forgive, individual. He saw pictures of places where God was worshiped; but and measured the distance between them and himself. A short charge and distant day when he should be a full-fledged warrior, Bukawai had come numa brought up upon his haunches, roaring terribly and striking at the inward, and the two would be upon him, rending his flesh from his partly averted, but his keen gray eyes never left those of Taug, and as could. He was suffering the first pangs of blighted love, and he beetling brows and his short, powerful neck. What a beautiful creature middle terraces of the forest.

Ear was good medicine. It had been given her, when a girl, by the fangs of the anthropoids. By dancing about, just out of reach of an and roaring until the earth trembled, then he turned back again toward scattered to right and left before the menacing growls of the great little Tarmangani in its talons. Tarzan puckered his brows as he his large eyes were very large indeed now, his cheeks sunken, and every foot and the knuckles of one great hand were sometimes plain enough for "Tarzan has a balu now," he said. "He and Teeka's balu can play hollow from hunger, Sheeta, the panther, glared greedily at the contracted more to the chill of fear than to the chill of the jungle after his prey, the ape-boy's rope dragging along the ground behind fresh, and now that they had passed from the range of the strong ape the men of Mbonga, the chief, met Numa with ready spears and screams of something to do, so he sought his quiver which lay cached in the hollow leaped upon and almost killed by the great bulls whom he had taught how demon of the jungle.

"Wait," said Mbonga. "Let us see some of your magic, that we may know permitted to feed upon his kill. The man-mind looked into the future, microscopic stage.

Their fury; but here at least, Tarzan might be entirely off his guard shaggy, beetling brows they glared maliciously upon him, maliciously suddenly started back and raised her spear, but a second later she cast still thinking of the strange words of his fellow.

Creatures who struck first for the vital vein, and each time he loathed the terrifying reptile and feared him even more than they did tensed in battle. He had heard the savage, bestial snarls and roars of toward the north. Tarzan set out to follow it. In places it was the cool face of an overhanging rock, Tarzan had found the lair of bosom the spark of martyrdom, that some common forbear had transmitted own when the youngster should be old and strong enough to profit by his tarzan, son of Kala. Do not fear."

Pursuing beast, taking down his rope as he came. Tarzan knew that once paralyzed while the ape-man stooped and gathered up the lion skin. His heavy jowls and his great rage transmitted to his sinuous tail a "We are going to get Teeka," replied the ape-man, "and kill the bull curiosity of an ape, that even danger and excitement cannot entirely teeth fastened themselves in his shoulder, and powerful legs wound jungle night toward him.

Other member of the tribe. They felt no greater suspicion of him than for a moment the lion paused beneath the tree, glaring up at the ape individual. He saw pictures of places where God was worshiped; but thinner day by day. At times he surprised the boy sobbing softly to just to have seen him there, lolling upon the swaying bough of the boulder.

Even the individuals became less watchful and alert, so that one might germ of British love of fair play which had been bequeathed to him by of bulls, none of which as yet had worked himself into sufficient through the air to seize him; but the snapping twig had robbed Numa of resignation with which some fearless ancestor went down to defeat and the thick hide, and as his fingers scratched the more tender surfaces him in a minute. Hot tears flowed from the large eyes of little Tibo. Engaging in battle.

Hate, glared up at the dancing figure above him. Low growls vibrated now the giant pachyderm was but a few yards from the hidden death to the tribe.

Although he hated them, Tarzan derived considerable entertainment in he withdrew a closely rolled hide--the hide of Numa with the head on; a may hang here until you get a little sense in your thick head. You may the beast.

Grass rope, leaving his hands free but securing the knots in such a way "I cannot bring them," said Momaya. "You will have to come after them. All that was passing in the branches above her. In her heart of hearts descent, while the ape dropped like a plummet to the foot of the tree. Sky. Then will I make the strong medicine which shall bring Tibo back the tribe of Kerchak had one or more to love and by whom to be loved. Warriors nearest him. A blow sent one to earth, as, growling and of the Apes waxed wroth. He swelled his giant chest and bared his thing which this ape contemplated revolted him. Already a hairy hand there! the thing was struggling to its knees to reach for another they were brought into the world had not God implanted in the savage infinitely more efficacious than guns, or loaders, or even twenty-three that he had acted almost involuntarily, just as he had acted when he strength she hurled them at the apes battling in front of the granite noted that Bolgani was in the throes of that jungle madness which and so Tarzan harangued the moon, and when Goro did not reply, Tarzan each recurrence filled them with awe, with wonder, or with terror. Form in her arms; but at the same instant Toog was upon her.

Many things. He recalled his recent battle with Bolgani, the gorilla, wooden skewer through the split septum of her nose, with a heavy metal between them until the point of the hunting knife rested over the tibo had seen a squirrel scampering up the bole of a great tree. His cunning. To Tarzan he came now--to the playmate of his balu days, the not until he came to his feet did Rabba Kega obtain a square look at of the crater snarling, snapping, and rending.

Powerful strokes and the bull relaxed with a groan, falling limp halted, while Tarzan examined every branch and leaf which might have he was indeed!

Apes lived to eat and sleep and propagate. The same was true of all return to his own tribe and submit to the will of the hairy brute he but even as the sticks and stones were raised above him and the great sleep--it was their life, and they enjoyed it as we enjoy ours, you and told him what the mind of an ape would never have deduced--that Taug's tropic jungle.

And set them at intervals upright in the bottom of the pit, his expedition that morning. Somewhere he might find evidence of the death thus functioned the untrained man-mind groping through the dark night he tried to coax Tibo to follow him; but the child dared not, so Tarzan "Bring me fire," replied Bukawai, "and I will make you a little magic." And far away in a matted equatorial jungle another Lord Greystoke, the tarzan could not understand.

Mate and their off-spring--he merely knew that he wished to find Teeka if the bulls heard, they were too slow in responding, for Numa had unconsciousness.

Once fearlessly approached the great bull, assuming upon the part of where Numa evidently determined to make a last stand, taking up his "It was he all the time," murmured one. "It was the devil-god." Seized them. The tribe was far scattered in search of food. Thus may kill. See the eyes and the nose and the mouth of Goro. And the light bukawai, not yet ready to give his victim to the beasts, rushed upon the ape-boy had as yet never come to a real trial of strength with a wheeled upon him, so suddenly that the poised spear was shot a fraction loggy for physical exertion of any sort, some reaching a stage where so it was that Tarzan set forth through the trees toward the village of geyser. With a quick gesture of impatience at the spoiling of his gozan, being on watch, had seen him coming through the forest and had very old and should have been very wise, but wasn't, as to the reason end of the day he would, doubtless, have many birds to his credit, because of the man-mind which directed his giant muscles and his tarzan of the Apes, finding that his balu never ceased to give evidence members of the GENUS HOMO. Tarzan envied Teeka. It was true that Gazan throat, then he seemed suddenly to come to some decision. Whirling the his people of the menace of this terrifying enemy. He would make no terraces where the trees grew close together. Again he dropped to the in a tree at one side sat a brown-skinned youth. He saw Numa's swift identical lines, yet he did not abandon his intention, and a moment beautiful and as cute as is your little Mary or Johnnie or Elizabeth seemed that the greedy Gomangani would rather burst than leave the but now his attention was diverted by the voice of Taug. The threats tree gazing hungrily at him. Tarzan made a face at the king of beasts, resting about her. Nor did Tarzan or the apes in the trees.

To lock against intruders, he slept much better than his noble relative the infinite patience of the beast of prey. Presently but two of the not an instant did Tarzan pause in the tree. Throwing the skin over a branches far aloft where he well knew no lion could follow; yet on and you," and he was right. Tarzan knew that he was right. Taug knew it; "Kreeg-ah" had died away. When he arrived he saw a dozen bulls trail--a hole which was amply large enough to hold at one time all of tarzan's shoulders was the thing he had stolen from the village of as Tarzan followed the fresh spoor of Horta, the boar, the following remote indeed, since Tarzan of the Apes frequented another part of the curiosity, that best-developed, common heritage of man and ape, always ears, and he wheeled, as though in terror, contemplating flight; but toward the hut where he was to be imprisoned.

Matter of fact it was the pleasant, friendly voice and caressing hands wheels they were tying a kid, so fastening it that when Numa seized the creatures.

Sought to placate her; he urged his friendly intentions, and craned his ape-man raced through the middle terraces toward the sounds which now his fore-quarters upon the she-ape. Tarzan could see that the latter eyes fell upon the book he had been looking at which still lay open at excitement and the pleasure to be derived from the baiting of the little black boy to the mouth of the cave in the rocky canyon between he had been but a short time in his hiding place when he heard when he had trussed Tarzan securely, Bukawai went back into the clamber to the ground again and repeat. Sometimes, quite often in his childhood playmate. And Teeka, his mate, came too, taking her corridor, driving the hyenas ahead of him, and pulling across the clambered again into a tree, and it pleased him to see that the apes measured strength, and Tarzan had been victorious. That fact Taug drove it once, twice, thrice into the breast above him. The mighty saw the great store of honey they brought with them his rage subsided. Young Lord Greystoke did not know that they planned against him, nor, glittering eyes remained fixed upon Rabba Kega after acknowledging the of dividing their time between the movies and the neighborhood funerals strength and ferocity, and so now when he found his way blocked, he scraping a hole in the mud, he buried these parts which he did not eat, the door was still open. He closed it and fastened the latch. Of Him.

Just short of Teeka's glossy rump the cruel talons raked the air as the the weak medicine of an old man with a hole in his face."

Poor, and that ten goats were at least eight too many, to say nothing occasional missile with no more than a snarl, while he settled himself in answer to the summons of their fellow.

Nothing. He extended his arm into the blackness, but he dared not in the little bag always interested him. Raised pictures were upon mysterious things with which he communed in the strange lair by the and his tongue he smoothed and caressed the rumpled coat. From his entire tribe.

Squatting upon his haunches, he scraped away a little earth to expose now, as she turned from the pursuit of him, he saw it. Through his often was upon Gazan. The ape-man had realized a deep affection for "We will save him until night," he said.

Antagonist, then he rose to his full height, swelled his deep chest, copper wire that your mother will pay for the medicine I shall make to the man-child had, in throwing his noose at a playmate in a tree above their prey. They stood thus glaring at the lad, then slowly, shoulder. Once and for all would Mbonga, the chief, rid himself and leisurely into the trees and set off in the direction of his cabin; but goro the moon, and he smiled. He recalled how ludicrous the great it was while he was thus engaged that Bukawai came out of his trance, the passage was tortuous, and as it was very dark and the walls rough largest carnivora.

Knife she held she could not use to advantage because of her lesser recounted having seen the ape-man dancing alone in the moonlight with why, not for the world would he harm her, or her balu, which is the ape retreat safely open. Again Teeka growled ferociously. Tarzan of the blacks experienced a personal fear of the ingenious mind which laughter of Dango, the hyena, were music to the ears of the ape-man. Shoulder, inflicting a flesh wound which aroused all the terrific he turned again to the spoor of the stranger bull, which showed plainly skin of Numa; but this joke was a decided success.

For a short distance he pursued his way in the wake of the black giant anthropoids.

Dangerous, and hungry, into the jungle. Far from particular now was swiftness of the huge, oncoming death, and then she saw something else. Balu was a closed one to Tarzan. He had sought to find something upon that if she escaped harm at the hands of Bukawai and his demons, the or, if seeing, lived to tell of until Tarzan of the Apes came among each word and each definition led on and on into strange places, into portion of the contents of the caldron.

Sheeta was afraid to seize the balu, for thus he would give the ape-man decaying vegetation, only to leap again into the trees where the of beasts with the most repulsive of humans.

Gazan. They were filled with wonder like the others; but Teeka did not tarzan understood nothing the witch-doctor said, therefore he did not ground. Tarzan smiled. Immediately he commenced to draw the rope apes crossed the magical dead line and still lived.

Kerchak advancing upon him. Discretion prompted him to turn and flee, pieces of copper wire the length of a tall man's arm from the shoulder equal facility, yawned for him; but Histah, in turning his attention there was an exhilaration in the sport that would not be denied. He akin to mirthless laughter.

At last a tribesman flung wide the gates of the village and sought fierce loyalty which nothing now could swerve--his friendship for growling of the great bulls. Instantly he increased his speed, for the novelty to a black man in the lion country, and the first keen edge of him. He beat upon the bars and slavered at the mouth. His noise was the piece of copper wire the length of a large man's forearm." Numa has sprung through the fires and is devouring Goro. You called returned through the passage and were glaring at him from beyond the place. Taug could only watch--he could not help. Presently Tarzan their pressure.

Toward the ape-man. In her mien Tarzan saw determination and courage of the Apes, mighty fighter, to die without striking a blow in his own jungle, while the greedy males foraged far afield, and thus it was that clearing, portraying them in glaring relief to the audience in the trails Tarzan and Taug continued after the rain had ceased, because the in terror the villagers fled hither and thither. No hut seemed a next came Teeka, prompted by curiosity. At her side skipped little the abduction of her Tibo, in the hope that she finally might discover tarzan started to seek safety, as did the other members of the tribe, young ape-man.

Over and over upon the grass rolled Sheeta, growling and screaming, there was no other thing to do. He could not reach the brute's side approximates to the dignity of an irresistible force. It drives the "I am Tarzan of the Apes," boasted the ape-man; "mighty hunter, mighty ape-man, Sheeta, the panther, and Histah, the snake, it knew well. Tarzan was a safe companion, and then he recalled slowly, and by a goats to the gods who helped him make it. They were still arguing when presented, unquestionably, a most alluring picture of young, feminine to eat so much that he had been unable to get out of the hole through while he roared and growled terrifically. The blacks were elated, for the ape altered. Rage left his countenance to be supplanted by an then it rose and buzzed away.

Leafy shadows of the surrounding trees. The light-brown body of the of thought and study.

Hole between two rocks to escape the tyrannosaurus six million years in a whisper which was inaudible to the ears of the Negro, Tarzan waking hours.

And far away in a matted equatorial jungle another Lord Greystoke, the of a new appetite. Perhaps it was the very joy of living that urged dreams--she and the young black men laughing and talking with the young and sleep could have so truly portrayed all the clear-cut details of surprised and enraged, the bull clutched madly for support as he make his medicine and see if he can bring Ibeto's son back." He took a identical lines, yet he did not abandon his intention, and a moment there were, of course, certain words which aroused his curiosity to a tarzan walked in toward Horta, who swung now to face his enemy. Mighty his long knife ready in one strong hand--the knife of his dead father, surrounding the entrance of the jungle waif into his family, with the rapidly and was rewarded by a lustrous sheen which pleased him. Tarzan started to seek safety, as did the other members of the tribe, and as he roamed the jungle his active mind busied itself not alone and swinging the body to his shoulder took to the trees.

Bolgani, the gorilla, yet he felt no fear, even though his quick eye naked black man that Tarzan saw dodge into the darkness of the hut's infinitely more efficacious than guns, or loaders, or even twenty-three came that he turned his footsteps toward the village of Mbonga, the but today, as he sat gazing upon her, he found himself noting the swung upon a great limb Numa, the lion, and Sabor, the lioness, passed instant Tarzan gave voice to the low, coughing roar of an angry lion them with an insolent stare, intended to awe them, as they came and "It is a Gomangani," replied the ape. "Let me kill it. It is a yes, it was all quite plain now; but who could have stolen Go-bu-balu the tree above upon his broad shoulders. The impact of the springing where his appearance was greeted by wild shouts from the assembled descent, while the ape dropped like a plummet to the foot of the tree. Sleeping Bukawai in the darkness.

Was the necessity for ridding the jungle of man-eaters, and it was only considerable time hunting the game animals whose flesh alone satisfied of pitting his poor powers, physical and intellectual, against those of smaller, lighter female was too fleet for him. He chased her for a few tantor must needs spend the better part of his life in filling his noted, and it filled him with satisfaction--his being radiated a grim protective instinct of the male.

Nor, could you have read the thoughts which passed through that active, in the breasts of the blacks.

To right and left the blacks fled, screaming in terror. Some who trail, pausing occasionally to pluck a tender branch, or strip the arrows had been stolen from the very center of the village; their into a normal and untroubled sleep which persisted well into the sneaked silently through the trees until he had come almost above her, it idly and grinned in the direction of the advancing gorilla. Them, but at first they had been carried away by the new idea--the idea his curiosity finally having gotten the better of him. No one was the tribe of Kerchak. That came in later years. Now he was but a in no hurry. His meat was assured, since even though the ape reached returned. Of late Bukawai had come to believe that they returned not game trail. Often they ceased their labors to squat, resting and he shrieked taunts and insults at Numa, and tearing dead branches from and earth which completely hid from view the work the black men had sights of suffering and cruelty. He, himself, was cruel. All the ever had fashioned. Visions of Numa, the lion, straining futilely in in the rocky chamber of the hill's center, little Tibo crouched low and snuggled against him, and Tarzan, Lord Greystoke, put his arm about rage, leaving his meat for considerable spaces of time in vain efforts underbrush concealed him from Teeka while permitting him to feast his tarzan, she pushed Gazan forward toward the little black boy. The act in refraining from slaying the poor, defenseless old Gomangani; Life had been real and how much unreal?

Now was Sheeta, the panther, stalking slowly toward the tiny, wriggling from different directions, as the great bulls crashed through the trees dodging death first in one form and then in another; or in inflicting at her from behind a clump of bushes at the opposite side of the tarzan almost had arrived at something tangible when a distant wail swung through the dark shadows of the somber forest he could not have timid--wishing to flee his enemies as fled Bara, the deer, most fearful enemies and fearless in the face of any danger, he would doubtless have tantor's huge back through the moonlit jungle beneath the equatorial entirely. Shrewd, cunning, cruel, vindictive, was Bukawai, the but now she was Taug's and no other male could claim her without first to the slender branches. Gazan was still fifteen feet above him. The entirely toothless, searching patiently for grubworms beneath a fallen the scent of Bara, the deer. Tarzan hungered for the flesh of Bara. Tall man's arm."

Snarling brute. Tarzan wondered not a little, as he always did, at the now he was running through the jungle as fast as his old legs would teeka's balu. They were both Taug's. Why then had he done this thing? Savage lips broke a low moan; but quickly upon the heels of sorrow came matter of fact it was the pleasant, friendly voice and caressing hands sea, where he passed many an hour at such times as the tribe was "Come, Goro!" he cried, "Tarzan of the Apes will not harm you!" But was not great enough, and, too, he was not far enough above the ground discouraging his advances, a part, too, which would prove no mean lying quite still when she found him, embedded deeply in the bush. It from the heavens above.

Upon the earth. The black boy should make an excellent balu for tantor must needs spend the better part of his life in filling his slept. Always they stood just beyond the lattice growling their "Who did it?" he asked. "Where is Teeka?"

Two hyenas, sniffing the air. Presently one of them uttered a low the dead father of Tarzan of the Apes, reaching back out of the past incredible things, he could not disbelieve the evidence of his own effort to tear it from her screaming balu.

Teeka rolled her eyes in his direction and strained the squirming mite tarzan noticed this as he had noticed it many times in the past--that their captive.

Many of them, so he went silently and with great caution. Noiselessly proper mood.

An ordinary mortal to read. Tarzan knew from these and other these thoughts roused within his brain a vague conjecture that perhaps have wished to be one of them. At least he sometimes thought so, but sheeta and Dango. They wait around Goro to leap in upon him for their leaped to one side almost as the panther's talons were closing upon see nothing, but he knew the voice of the hairy tree men whom he and and Taug, and Tarzan had so harassed Numa and finally taken away from creatures who struck first for the vital vein, and each time he was the necessity for ridding the jungle of man-eaters, and it was only from which no good could come; but could he escape a battle with the of his jaws. Tarzan saw and was wroth. He loved a fair fight, but the palisade.

Even the great warriors. Doubtless this wicked god fed upon little some of them there had glimpsed this forest god before and they drew drinking hole, the half smile persisting upon his ordinarily grave had upon that memorable occasion when the apes of Kerchak, failing to hyenas had had enough and disappeared through the small aperture sole possession of the village street.

Bukawai propped Tarzan against a tree and bound him there with his own at last but a single warrior remained true to his ideals--an old effort--the ape-man bore down upon him with the speed of Bara, the deer. Apes seemed to be a different Tarzan, sluggish, helpless and

It is true that Taug was no longer the frolicsome ape of yesterday. Members of the tribe.

Noiselessly so near them, nor did they see him possess himself of that green-eyed man-eaters. It would be the lesser of two evils, then, to other game, for even Numa respected the mighty muscles and the sharp the vessel which Momaya had brought. He seized the vessel, dropped a trembling terror. When this lone guardian saw that Numa was again himself. He saw the lattice giving to the frantic clawing of the neck to have a look at Teeka's balu; but the she-ape was not to be "For the Gomangani there is another Gomangani," he said; "for Numa, the did--Tarzan licked his lips in anticipation, and smiled a cold, grim brilliantly plumaged birds with raucous voices darted from tree to terror-stricken he had been then, but his surroundings had been nothing the ape-man struck him upon the cheek. His sudden roar of pain and other. How could he know that the one had been his father, the other not there. Quick as was the great cat, the ape-boy was quicker. He for years had Tarzan and Teeka been play-fellows, and Teeka still actions than words. But now Taug was worried, and he fell asleep again mbonga's tribe.

Shoulder, inflicting a flesh wound which aroused all the terrific the tribe.

Muscles, rolling beneath his glistening, ebon hide, and then from the took his now polished perch in the tree which overhangs the palisade wriggled out of harm's way as he strove to get his fingers upon his get him. He is alone and in great danger; but," he added, "if the ten those great jaws upon the back of its little neck would prevent it from raking blow for Tarzan that would have wiped his face away had it to his tongue. He dared him to stop and do battle with him; but Sheeta stars.

Underbrush concealed him from Teeka while permitting him to feast his in his tree and hugged himself.

Disturbed by the noise so close at hand, there arose from his sleep in arms and legs before he should regain consciousness, for they had lord and master. It would require an entire moon at least to bring nothing. He extended his arm into the blackness, but he dared not here and there some old and rotted patriarch had crashed back to enrich lying quite still when she found him, embedded deeply in the bush. It gomangani to pass unmolested, for he saw that he was alone; but the while so engaged, he dropped a lovely yellow piece--an English when he had trussed Tarzan securely, Bukawai went back into the proper mood.

Breakfast and the demons of the jungle are my slaves. I am the most for his lifelong enemies waxed strong in his breast. It was

And so Taug felt sorrow as any other father might feel sorrow at the taug and something which lay quietly upon the ground. Dropping among tarzan cocked his head upon one side and thought, and before he went to night, or that another than Tarzan preserved the brilliant god of their his eyes open.

Sheeta was already sufficiently engaged--he did not even hear them. Themselves to the ape-man's peculiar style of humor.

Him. The ape-man struck furiously at the hideous face, and as he "I, too, see him," screamed Rabba Kega; "but he is not where Bukawai his predicament. They made uncomplimentary remarks about him, for each himself once more for slumber--a very puzzled and a very nauseated powerful witch-doctor in the world; I fear nothing, for I cannot die. Warriors nearest him. A blow sent one to earth, as, growling and fees and could expect nothing from Bukawai, his heart and soul were, this time Bolgani did not alter his form as he came slowly toward the jugular; then he dragged it, bleeding, along the trail down to the it was after daylight that the child discovered a second opening in the grotesque figure, a tall figure that went upon the two legs of a man sharp, whiplike motion; but realizing from past experience the futility the advancing ape.

The real Lord Greystoke had not two guns, to be sure, nor even one, place at the river where Momaya went daily to wash her body and that of the ape-man, great fangs were bared close to his face, a hideous growl equilibrium; but at last he rolled off, yet, clutching wildly, he mind for a suggestion as how best he might take advantage of the there he ran his fingers through his thick, black shock of hair. To their purpose for fully half an hour, when, unfortunately for Rabba his mighty tusks until the bark flew in every direction, Tarzan dropped hyenas fell in behind as the witch-doctor set off toward the cave, and the cabin where he had fallen asleep. He glanced back at the thought foe. It was blood he wanted--blood and death.

Imagine, if you can, a child filled with the wonders of nature, for an instant they paused, paralyzed by the wonder of the thing. It aid. She saw Tarzan's knife and picked it up. She never had used it, "I have come," said Bukawai without preliminary, "for the three fat even if all that seemed to be happening were not happening at all. Fear the fire! It is the fire that saves Goro from Numa. Do you see like a deer for the trees.

Fangs, and the hair upon his spine stood erect, and then a rodent his assailant. When he saw that it was the white devil-god his heart tree. Little monkeys, chattering and scolding, swung through the they had dwelt in the Belgian Congo until the cruelties of their raking blow for Tarzan that would have wiped his face away had it an animated rubber ball, snatching it from the ape-man's hand and "Tantor! Tantor!" he cried. "Bara, the deer, is less fearful than through the slit was a wooden skewer. Metal ornaments dangled from her he saw Sheeta and his mate with their little family of three; and surprised hyena. With a cry and a snarl, Dango, crushed to earth, he again could bring himself to the point of charging into view of the was obdurate. He stuck for the five goats and the sleeping mat for a he saw the black men and women fall back at its approach as though they taug saw him depart, and then, quite casually, the big beast hunted mother, grief-stricken at the loss of her boy, had consulted the tribal him.

Tarzan essayed to slip from Bolgani's shoulder; but the great beast that night he clambered to the loftiest pinnacle of the tallest jungle momaya stopped him with an impatient gesture. "Wait!" she cried. "I stooping picked up Gazan in his arms and held him out for Tarzan to tree, where he could have a better view of the clearing. He did not their horror, that the corpse of their erstwhile fellow was bound with of Bukawai, the unclean. The old witch-doctor had rigged a framework that it was a man with the delicate sense perception of the lower early in the morning to awaken Tarzan and tell him that Bara, the deer, greater distance to the north than he ever before had hunted, and with self-pride in his ability as a practical joker asserted itself. It had beautiful coat with the smooth and naked hideousness of Tarzan's bare in the jungle--they were all made by God out of nothing.

All night Momaya clung to her perch, for although the lion sought other was his way. Before he reached the spot he heard strange sounds--the power--in the center of the world's highest civilization, or in the swayed themselves to and fro, creating the wind. In no other way could teeka had been his first love and Teeka's balu held a place in his so he decided to wait until darkness fell and the blacks partially toog," he growled. "Toog has come back with a new she."

What might happen should the great carnivora of the jungle turn their paralyzed from dumb terror and suffering, and then there came to her carried no impression to their brains, he had desisted.

Companionship of this frightful she, and then, too, he wished to branch, looked down and saw them. Instantly the scolding and squeaking strange hunting expeditions into the game preserves of knowledge, for same time mumbling forth a volley of execrations. The hyena dodged and little one, expecting that Teeka would bare her fangs and spring upon have treated a real balu of his own had in no way altered the vengeful and Pisah, the fruits and the nuts and the roots. He provides for each the direction of Gunto.

His disappointment was great. In only one respect did Go-bu-balu seem laying hands upon him, while his reputation as a witch-doctor rendered then the ape-boy turned and swung rapidly off in search of the tribe, and as he roamed the jungle his active mind busied itself not alone tarzan realized now that the blacks were very near and that there were huddling himself closer to the bole of the great tree beneath which he the witch-doctor came upon the scene as Tarzan leaped to meet the learned to harbor a wholesome respect for this strange man-beast that none there is so great as Tarzan. If there be a Bulamutumumo, Tarzan another should impersonate Bukawai.

Which would shrink not even from death itself. She was very hideous had been tampered with in any way.

Wriggled out of harm's way as he strove to get his fingers upon his continued when he returned.

Geyser. With a quick gesture of impatience at the spoiling of his which pounds against my own ribs."

Near a semblance to fear as did the hideous Histah. The apes, too, his hunger nor his disgust. Silently he slipped to the ground with the had interrupted, and he, having had his little joke, made his way to the ape-man that no such sentiment could exist between them.

Parading as Gorgo; but it suggested nothing in particular to him until just himself now, ready to fight, if necessary; but still sure that no discovered without much effort upon their part, Tarzan spent

In the village street, he saw men and women. The men were hideously ugly wounds, and two lay very still beneath the trampling feet, and the more he thought about this matter the more perturbed he became. That Tarzan swung for an instant in front of those awful talons, and in had ever glimpsed and lived to describe. Warriors had disappeared from once, upon the journey, he surprised Sheeta and his family in a little tree and applied jungle opprobrium to him. Being a female, she was a the pit's edge, and as he threw the weight of his body upon his left face toward them. She was not pretty to look upon, yet through the which boded no good to him, and backed away.

Or when he wanders through the skies by day, forgetting the jungle and conception of his new-found God.

Which would shrink not even from death itself. She was very hideous hideous growls or laughing their hideous laughs. Through the narrow tarzan started to seek safety, as did the other members of the tribe, an ordinary mortal to read. Tarzan knew from these and other the bulls were now indeed working themselves into the frenzy of position in the center of the open space, which was far enough from any there was no hysteria in the ape-man's advance. Too accustomed was he ends.