A Random "Jungle Tales Of Tarzan" Cutup

Kid. Digging it up, he ascended into a tree and proceeded to satisfy super-intelligence.

Hope of witnessing something of the kind that he now followed the tarzan looked up and smiled. He had been awakened thus before many again it was night. With all his old agility he clambered back to the the same way in so short a time? They would show him! For long they bush. It was a mere nothing in the path of any jungle creature of the interest, for the ape-man was just commencing to ask himself questions pendulous under lip sagging beneath the weight which dragged it down. Manner of creature the presence of these little sentinels proclaimed. Buto charges, for if he be caught and tossed, the chances are that purpose of the black men's labors. Such a one as these it was who had he account for this phenomenon. The rain he finally attributed to the in his heart of hearts he knew that something had come into his life announcing his approach save by a hideous scream just as he sprang from my mother was a voodoo, my father was a snake; I live upon lions' eat in a year, even had he been hungry, which he was not, having but but he did not know, and so he only wondered, not alone at what he saw for Tarzan had surprised them; but there was more, too, than mere realized that Gazan was fleeing and that another was in pursuit, she another drove the heavy hunting knife to the hilt into the little brain. Crotch of a tree where the thick foliage screened him from view, and fellow whose once wrinkled belly was now as smooth and as tight as the in the glare of the fires they saw a huge bulk topping the barrier. "I do not know," replied Taug. "I found him lying here with Dango among the grasses. He moved his tail again, as though this closest intently in the middle of the path. Presently he heard the sound for warnings and advice.

Hyenas in the wider portions of the path had walked one on either side kerchak had heeded his teaching, and he had learned that he had good an opening for attack; and for the same reason Tarzan hesitated to "This will keep them from you," he said. "If I do not get the ten fat foot and the knuckles of one great hand were sometimes plain enough for yet he knew that presently the rain would cease, the sun come out again ascend toward him. Teeka screamed to Gazan to climb higher, and the sought only food and love, Tarzan of the Apes sought food and joy. They had worn smooth the bark upon its upper surface.

Swung through the dark shadows of the somber forest he could not have beasts of the jungle were cruel; but the cruelty of the blacks was of a high-flung branches of the trees. What they dropped they sometimes nimble fingers he worked rapidly at the thongs which held the door in but an instant. They had been hunting a lion securely housed within a in the center of the clearing, and there she sat hugging her balu and so intent were they upon their gratulations that they entirely failed kega. The village witch-doctor saw something in those eyes of hers then he swung into the trees and followed above and behind

Out low, coughing roars. Tarzan of the Apes heard him long before he strange, inexplicable force stayed his hand--a force inexplicable to end of his rope.

Surprised and enraged, the bull clutched madly for support as he bulls scurrying to the trees, jabbering and scolding. Taug raced off these thoughts roused within his brain a vague conjecture that perhaps ground, and the grunting and coughing of the great carnivora prowling before it overhauled Teeka. He must chance a throw.

Of them. He knew no fear, but in the face of Nature's manifestations the Dum-Dum without the light of Goro?"

Know the one from the other? How much of all that had happened in his sole possession of the village street.

Them from falling. His was an inquisitive mind. Always he had been the fork of a tree from where he might view the jungle for quite a upon her.

But Tarzan liked Taug. He had no grudge against him, and his man-mind flat stone until the soft edge was quite fine and sharp. He worked his hair lopped off to his entire satisfaction, and seeing no boys. Had his mother not said as much when he was naughty and she even the witch-doctor paused in the midst of an intricate step, the force of the fall. A cut upon the back of his head showed where he beasts know it not, the blacks only a little, while to one in a hundred and then into the clearing strode Numa, the lion--majestic and mighty, securely in the very spot the kid had previously occupied. The slept.

Upon him; he laughed and couched his spear, setting the point for the behind one of his small, flat ears.

Time before: "Yes, Tantor, it is good to live. I should hate to die." Language it represented, he could live in a wonderful world of which he be considered, and Mbonga had no intention of parting lightly with ten upon his lips, he ran toward them. For an instant one of the animals he could imagine their terror when they awoke and found the dead body small one. The ape-man, accustomed as he was to questioning closely carry out his idea they would be much quicker to follow his lead than resume their interrupted feeding, and Teeka turned with them, of them had felt the weight of Taug's mighty hands and the strength of fearsome jungle demon. As one they rushed forward with raised spears. Tarzan walked in toward Horta, who swung now to face his enemy. Mighty but she did not know the malevolent cunning of Toog's little brain. Taug, although only a brutal ape, had had impressed upon his mind a unhappy; but he was determined never to return to the tribe. He could to one or two of the tribe and discovered that even the pictures momaya saw him and shrieked, drawing Tibo closer to her breast. To sown. The darkness, the presence of the dreaded witch-doctor, the pain adversaries with a single charge, fled like a frightened deer--fled mbonga would never let her have them, and Tibo knew that his father until at last Tarzan was surrounded by a ring of hairy champions who felt his blood tingling through his veins as the beaters approached appear, he had never before looked beneath the bed. He found the gold would charge the moon and devour him. To the apes all large things in numa, the lion, and crying out that they must not strike it again. He stood with poised spear above his head waiting for the instant that toward the north, and though she paused often to listen, breathlessly, antagonist, then he rose to his full height, swelled his deep chest, cries and lamentations of Momaya growing fainter in the distance. Eyes, set and glassy, came close to Tarzan, the jaws opened to seize most feared of jungle creatures.

Appeared that the ape-man was filled with a great contempt; but another him--none except Tarzan. Soon Goro will be devoured by Numa and we tarzan fell quite forty feet, alighting on his back in a thick bush. Decayed elephant flesh, a lion roaring in the jungle, a picture-book, to play tag through the tree tops is an exciting and inspiring pastime. Restless pacing and faced the boma. For a moment he stood motionless, investigated the internal mechanism of his kills, and once or twice he and he charged back even more ferociously than he had come, for what he pods upon his upturned face from a branch a short distance above him. Stolen, and you, rotting fragment of a man, have taken him. Return him gazan, so Tarzan gave up his efforts for the time.

Antagonist, Tarzan could do infinite injury with his long, sharp female other than to gently chastise her, with the occasional exception painted--more hideously than usual. Among them moved a weird and he turned to the apes. "Go back to your feeding," he said, "and let animals has gone to the aid of a man in danger, even though the man had you shall have nothing, old thief. You would not make medicine until I he had carried Tibo away from his mother, filled his childish heart he knew it and Tarzan knew it; but of such things apes do not hunted, scattered less than had been their wont.

Tree to render him practically immune from the rather erratic throwing one does not look for Numa, the lion, this late in the morning. He thus, with a dream, came the first faint tinge of a knowledge of fear, lion with sticks and stones. The cruelty of the blacks toward a head as he came in, and he aimed a vicious blow at Taug's neck. The then he commenced to wonder if some of these strange creatures which he for other considerations. Doubtless it is this handicap which has kept they were in a far better position to know him when they came upon him, ground because he saw that the devil-god did not run, and because the instantly the balu was forgotten by Sheeta, the panther. He now he carefully re-covered it, arranging the earth as neatly as had the leaving four crimson bars across the beautiful coat.

Was he often tender, which they never were. No, the thing which crater of an ancient volcano, one of those which never reached the saddened, disheartened, she turned slowly upon the back trail toward jungle--it was hunting, and Tarzan of the Apes was an indefatigable cave between two rocky hills. The opening was low and narrow. A few bristled with rage when the blacks inflicted upon his enemy such turn his back and run.

They had heard, and thinking Tarzan was planning to slay Goro, greeted his kind feared, not alone because of the strength and ferocity of the tarzan knew that Teeka was peculiarly fearful of this silent, repulsive had stood in a vessel of water above a fire. Tarzan was, of course, the ape-boy, leaping after the panther, cried aloud to the beast in an unclean, who dwelt in a cave in the hillside to the north, and who it he was an impostor and that the rightful owner of his noble title was limb to which the young ape clung. Teeka saw all too plainly what the momaya drew herself to safety among the leafy branches and thanked the confident that they had ceased to place the watchers about them the things, to fashion pliant ropes of fibrous jungle grass. Strong and kind; for Bara, the deer; for Manu, the monkey; for all the beasts and to me or I shall tear your eyes from your head and feed your heart to aid. She saw Tarzan's knife and picked it up. She never had used it, but even as the sticks and stones were raised above him and the great of Him.

Already several of them slept. He crept closer, pausing just above presently his captors discovered that he was conscious, and as they had and behind them all came Tarzan of the Apes, racing through the jungle he could not believe what he had seen and yet, having seen even these to progress--he readily was mastering the language of the apes. Even limb at last from the tree he dropped to the ground and advanced toward warriors nearest him. A blow sent one to earth, as, growling and near a semblance to fear as did the hideous Histah. The apes, too, there were lulls in the fighting when the two would stand panting for madness seizes them, there is no jungle denizen so bold and fierce as black women.

"It is a Gomangani," replied Teeka. "It will kill my balu. Take it she was clinging--but below her.

The panther stood glaring first at one of his tormentors and then at throat. The powerful black warrior struggled to free himself; but he of the ease with which Numa and Sheeta, in a single moon, had slain two kala--someone to fight for and to hunt for--someone to caress; but now breasts of the poor, superstitious blacks with the panic of terror; And wheeled to meet him. In the impact of the charge, Tarzan's knife he had been but a short time in his hiding place when he heard tibo did not see them until, head down, he had forced his way through neck to have a look at Teeka's balu; but the she-ape was not to be and reviled the dead body of Sheeta. The young apes refought the and Dango ate until they swelled up like a dead rat. Tarzan had seen investigated the internal mechanism of his kills, and once or twice he nevertheless continued her way staunchly for several hours, until a low goro was nearly gone when the apes heard the sounds of the approach understanding. Of all the jungle folk, Tantor commanded Tarzan's with one great paw and drag the ape-man downward to those awful jaws. Whom his questionings were as strange as Sanskrit would have been. If goro would be entirely gone before Kudu came again. The apes trembled and still he sat grinning at the apparition. Tarzan might be fooled him, and as Sheeta went hurtling to the ground beyond, Tarzan was ancient and lucrative profession.

And muscled as was the young giant, it yet would have appeared but the the two stranger bulls would pass. Teeka trembled with excitement. Upheaval.

When his snarling-muscles bared his giant fangs no one could longer more of the hairy, manlike creatures upon the ground in a little glade. Their hold, and Tarzan of the Apes fell hurtling downward toward the with a cry so frightful, so bestial, that it momentarily paralyzed the apparently forgetful of all but her balu and the fact that when the terror upon Tarzan. It was he who had stolen her Tibo. Doubtless he which chance had directed its point into the body of Bolgani, the ape-man across a hairy shoulder, as easily as you or I might lift a caution, depending even more upon his ears and nose than upon his eyes loss of sleep, from sickness, and from the slight fever he had had, so grass rope, finally succeeded in severing its strands. For a moment gomangani with his skin off."

An angry growl of warning just ahead. Calling to the apes to follow the monkey, does not so. He keeps two or three always watching for mother love, rushed forward to ascend the tree and give battle to the evident token that her choice was made.

Gnawing upon it. Larger and larger became the hole in the side of the witch-doctor bit and scratched in an attempt to escape; but a few this would be the strongest, the heaviest rope that Tarzan of the Apes momaya, Tibo's mother, when he easily might have slain her?

The forest in search of water. His whole body seemed on fire, a great morose, and brooding; but he was not. His spirits seemed not to age at infinitely more efficacious than guns, or loaders, or even twenty-three entrails.

Northward journey was a nightmare of terror. He thought now of the they had been without weight, the while it sought to crush the life would not comport with his scheme. Presently a head peered forth from burned brightly before the doorway as it did before other doorways in their prisoner. Doubtless they would slay him at once. Again Tarzan the vessel which Momaya had brought. He seized the vessel, dropped a breasts of the poor, superstitious blacks with the panic of terror; Forward from the cavern brandishing his knob-stick. Tarzan saw him innumerable manifestations of the greatness of God which she had but Bulabantu was no coward. He heard the apes all about him; he knew the ferocity of the great Mangani, hopping about upon the carcass of never before had occurred in Teeka's brief life. She had seen other sought only food and love, Tarzan of the Apes sought food and joy. Punish him. The community instinct was ingrained in their characters single street, for only an orgy of flesh and native beer could draw out comfort it meant everything. A lock of hair falling in one's eyes at lithe, young body turning and twisting--a human bob upon a pendulum of been born to a gentle English lady or that his sire had been an English breeze, and lifting his trunk trumpeted loudly. Tarzan stretched back charge; he saw the apes turn and flee, huge bulls trampling upon little something to throw and at last her fingers touched upon the hard when at last he came upon the tribe he saw their members gathered about always until shortly before the baby came; but with the advent of her frightful rage, but all to no avail; and at last he became convinced time looking up at the burning planets and the twinkling stars and at the opposite side that they might drive down toward the guns. Lord fallen, as from the heavens, into the village street.

And terrible content. Like an angel of death he hovered above the would soon learn an intelligible form of speech.

Nature of his injury. In the falling backward his head had struck upon his oscillation, and, being a boy, he chose, naturally, to accelerate. Trick. Did he think he could twice fool the men of Mbonga, the chief, who was now possessed to steal it whenever he thought his great, constant companions. They made an excellent trio--the most repulsive tarzan will kill you," and he followed after the brown-skinned figure day upon which Kulonga, the chief's son, had slain Kala.

Deep layers of rotting vegetation. With heavy-nailed fingers they prostrate witch-doctor, dragged him to his feet.

His long knife ready in one strong hand--the knife of his dead father, he turned again to the spoor of the stranger bull, which showed plainly insult him, calling him eater of carrion and brother of Dango, the sought among the branches of the trees for eggs and young birds, or she saw a mighty, naked white man drop as from the heavens into the tarzan looked downward for a moment upon the still form of his late line as the open noose hovered for an instant above the savage head and "It was to be the length of a man's forearm," corrected Momaya, "but he envied her the handsome coat of hair which covered her body. His and the next day, when Momaya was working in the plantain field with another. Thus do the bulls work themselves to the proper pitch before his methods accordingly. He swelled his giant chest, beat upon it with edged a bit nearer, craning his neck to have a better look at the thing tarzan of the Apes, cementing even more closely the friendship that had the exchange of blood with Mbonga, the chief, in the rites of the beast's rear and then full upon the tawny back, burying his teeth in "For Teeka there is Teeka's balu," he soliloquized; "for Sabor there two days later he was still hunting alone--very morose and very into childish sobs of terror and loneliness. He knew that his mother he carefully re-covered it, arranging the earth as neatly as had the once or twice, but not for so many times in succession! He knew that tarzan scratched his head in puzzled incredulity. He could see by the sun. Tarzan accelerated his pace. Now he fairly flew along the jungle vengeance; but Tarzan would not permit it.

Long before they reached the cage, they heard the roaring of a great came down and the beast's tail dropped to normal; but his eyes still the ape-man fastened his fingers upon the throat of one of the hyenas cleared his young mind of all other considerations, as catlike he little heart she had longed for the day when the jungle grasses would in which there was no grain of truth. That a stomach, disordered by only growled ominously and gripped him tighter. With a mighty effort just behind the screen of creepers and matted foliage lurked three well-fed, self-satisfied witch-doctor. He made no noise that the dull distance a lion answered. It was very real and, yet, he did not know. Hunting knife from the scabbard in which it had stuck.

It was while he was thus engaged that Bukawai came out of his trance, fighter. In all the jungle none so great as Tarzan."

Struck off into the tangled vegetation which hid him from the view of tarzan realized that he was falling asleep, and just as the realization brushed a hairy shoulder as the great ape passed through the foliage. Lower lips drooped with their drooping jaws. They drew back in terror for fear she might encounter him or another of his kind; but at sneaked silently through the trees until he had come almost above her, emptiness. He must therefore have ample time to forage in peace. Put to the Creator of the Universe and so he hoped that God would not the overmastering desire for revenge.

Existed between them since Tarzan as a little, brown boy rode upon efficacious against an unfamiliar foe. Tarzan of the Apes was quite the ape-man they were identical through motherhood.

Lithe, young body turning and twisting--a human bob upon a pendulum of how many thousands of times had this great, old limb bent to the savage which dealt death to the mightiest of the jungle people with the ease shes.

His heavy jowls and his great rage transmitted to his sinuous tail a forgotten his admonitions, and if they continued for a short time him in until the clutching hands fastened upon a limb.

You will doubt it. Anyone at all familiar with elephants will doubt "Are you God?" asked Tarzan.

Rope. Beside him lay the frayed remnants of the old one, torn and grasped the swinging ape, he would quickly have drawn him within reach took Kala several minutes to disentangle him and drag him forth; but he up, batting his blood-shot eyes. Teeka half raised herself and looked him before he was aware of their presence. That a little

Of the jungle from its rotting surface vegetation to the high tossed greater and mightier was Tarzan of the Apes than Taug or any other ape. Tarzan was not far behind and he was gaining, but the distance was so back and forth. Then he made a few passes in the air and pretended to others. Let me stay with Momaya, O Tarzan, God of the Jungle! Let me biting and striking at the barrier, Taug finally worked himself into a back and forth. Then he made a few passes in the air and pretended to fifty feet from where the man stood.

Not dead," he said. "Maybe he will not die." He pressed through the there were many discouraging delays when the spoor seemed lost beyond strangely, he did not give the victory cry over the vanquished Histah. Sharp, whiplike motion; but realizing from past experience the futility at last but a single warrior remained true to his ideals--an old whispered Taug's name, cautioning the ape to silence, and Taug's teeka was beautiful in a way all her own, an indescribable sort of way tarzan approached filled with the curiosity which is common to all naught will interest him thereafter.

Snarling, the beast-man leaped upon the breast of another. His fangs identical lines, yet he did not abandon his intention, and a moment jaw hung low, exposing a red tongue and yellow fangs. But all this short that he scarce hoped to overhaul the carnivore before it had until he came out directly in the rear of the cage, in which Numa paced his lips, for he too loved Teeka's little balu.

Never had owned more than three goats at the same time in all his life. The strange, covered pit they had left behind them. He wondered again matter of fact could Tarzan, for the odds against him were too great. Crushing it to her, she cried and laughed all at one and the same time, the small talk of the wild was beyond the great, gray dreadnaught of possibilities for escape which lay within himself and his own powers. Roar that set stiff hairs to bristling from shaggy craniums down the he had seen Tarzan bring down a buck, just as Numa, the lion, might dragging his victim along the ground he walked back toward Sabor, the head as he came in, and he aimed a vicious blow at Taug's neck. The bit of the rope that had secured the kid, Tarzan made Rabba Kega's antagonist to be goaded to madness by the savage scream. No, there was with their little balus--playful creatures, spotted leopard-like. And grimaces.

Kerchak rushed upon the fallen lion. Sticks and stones and yellow taug met him with a huge fragment of rock as large as a man's head, and against many times their own number of black warriors would they have dictionary; but in a primer he had seen the picture of a little white just himself now, ready to fight, if necessary; but still sure that no possibility of apparently having passed through such a weird adventure screen, a picture was flashed before his mind's eye from the storehouse thing which occupied the savages. They were building a cage in the and they might even be skeptical as to the magic of another; but there apes lived to eat and sleep and propagate. The same was true of all until it was severed. All around his head he went until his black fellow-apes. They could not understand him or his ways, for with the sinking of his white teeth into the throats of his foemen. He but presently he was aroused by the growling of the hyenas. They had gnawing of appetite, made a quick, growling dash at the ape-man. The hyenas had had enough and disappeared through the small aperture but to neither of these did he owe the enmity of Bukawai, the dared not pause to heed.

Arrows at Numa, and all the while the apes of the tribe of Kerchak for the first medicine."

Himself once more for slumber--a very puzzled and a very nauseated tarzan was puzzled. There was something wrong. His arm dropped from of thought and study.

Will leap over the thorn bushes which encircle Goro and we will have no villagers.

His dinner, though his mighty talons raked the zebra's glossy rump, of the physical exertion. And this was his undoing.

Which he had entered. Now he could readily believe that man, given the dark jungle all about Goro. He is in danger and none can help this, and though he had been away for several days hunting alone, as he straight at the throat of the attacker.

Would charge the moon and devour him. To the apes all large things in the other's hairy shoulder, clutching the great neck in his mighty the whites showed gleaming all about the irises.

Been all beast he would have eaten; but his man-mind could entertain tarzan watched until his rival passed out of sight, still beating upon nothing upon earth might now stay his feet. Seeing that his antics had dying snake.

Kega--upon so slight a thing may the fate of a man rest--a honey bird however, these questions troubled Tarzan but little, and Tantor not at his father and his mother; but, of course, he did not know, since he inspiring and waving the zebra's tail before him, drew an imaginary through the air to seize him; but the snapping twig had robbed Numa of again Gunto voiced the opinion that the Tarmangani, the white ape, the spring which rose in the little canyon close at hand and returned biting and kicking was the black she's balu as Tarzan tucked him bottom--his few treasures. Among them was a flat bit of stone and a taug, too. Who can kill Taug? Taug will tear your insides from you and in the village of the blacks, picked up a live coal. Since then he had jungle from that of Goro, the moon. The diurnal jungle has its own him back, for he will be dead. This have I just found out, the ghost neck to have a look at Teeka's balu; but the she-ape was not to be the grin of derision faded from Tarzan's lips as the pain and the hot admiring eyes of his somber-hued mate. It seemed to Tarzan that into quasi submission. Then the bull lifted her to his shoulder and dropping her to the ground beneath, then he extricated the balu and tibo would be killed and eaten. How long he lay there he did not know, kulonga, the son of Mbonga, the chief, had slain Kala. Then, scooped away the disintegrated earth from the center of the age-old and so the night wore on, dream following dream, nightmare following and they hurt; but the good that had come from his adventure was worth tarzan witnessed strange things that night, none of which he

The ape-man went first to the spot where he had cached the body of the today he was restless. He turned the pages first of one book and then all that it had cost. He had learned, for instance, that the apes of done credit to a Thespian of the first magnitude. "Magic, indeed!" she relying solely upon his own resources, he did not cast about for tribe. He was making his way slowly along an elephant path when he terror of Mbonga's people and had afforded Tarzan both a vehicle of knife she held she could not use to advantage because of her lesser he could not expect even this much consideration from the frightful, crowd.

Nothing upon earth might now stay his feet. Seeing that his antics had full-blown bloom? Why was it at all? Why was he? Where did Numa, the tarzan saw, and in the instant that he saw, Teeka was no longer the bara, the deer, lovely and graceful.

With great care he rubbed the edge of the shell back and forth upon the had hurled herself before him in the village of Mbonga the night from the tree above him little Gazan looked down and witnessed the through the slit was a wooden skewer. Metal ornaments dangled from her firelight the straight young figure of the white devil-god.

Pacco came a little nearer, halted, snorted, and wheeled. There was a made frightful grimaces; then he put his face close over the mouth of buto, angered and mystified by the strange disappearance of his prey, lattice. He could see their yellow eyes blazing through the darkness. To clamber, apelike, to the branches above. As she did so, there was a finally desisted. Then he withdrew into the corridor and pulled the own, and teach him out of his half human, half bestial lore the secrets jungle, grim, terrible, hate-filled.

And hot tears of joy, mingled with the tears of Tibo, trickled down the clawing and biting, in a mad effort to dislodge his antagonist or get once, upon the journey, he surprised Sheeta and his family in a little arrow, muscled like Numa, the lion.

Once he crossed the trail of Numa, the lion, pausing for a moment to down went the black, his skull crushed by another blow. And then the require the entire tribe for his punishment. Two swift bulls could again and again came Pacco and his family, and again and again did they wooden skewer through the split septum of her nose, with a heavy metal was in body, was always inventing new ways in which to play. It was ground and approached the two.

His hunger satisfied, Tarzan did not seek a lying-up place for sleep, they had built it, they turned away and started back along the trail in with a cry so frightful, so bestial, that it momentarily paralyzed the teeka gave voice to a shrill scream of terror and of warning as she then the ape-boy turned and swung rapidly off in search of the tribe, savage and mysterious rites from a frightful death, you would have beneath him a huge, gray-black bulk forging steadily along the jungle in the future--that because they have not been attacked they never will tibo to her, stroking his thin cheek. Tarzan saw and sighed again. Taug, now wrought to a frenzy of real rage, followed him. Teeka peered medicine will not bring the child back--that I know, and I also know witness of his own eyes; but when he did and saw that it was indeed the "Where is my baby?" she cried. "Where is my little Tibo?"

Into quasi submission. Then the bull lifted her to his shoulder and one night when Taug lay sleepless looking up at the starry heavens he then he, too, let out a loud roar, and when he was sure that Mbonga had practical joking--almost; but not quite.

Bukawai needed but little imagination to picture what that vengeance the world. "They pass!" whispered Tarzan. "The lions pass." Then came tarzan was not far behind and he was gaining, but the distance was so was forging steadily away from them--gaining precious minutes that but not for long. Nor did he wish to be left thus long alone. It but the more he thought upon the matter the less positive he was as to would know that only a bull in the throes of madness will turn upon a fellow, precisely as they would fight for their own.

Noise awoke Bukawai. He sat up quickly and watched what went on within wrists secure behind his back, then he rose and jerked his prisoner to of the contents of the vessel in the ape-man's face. There was short that he scarce hoped to overhaul the carnivore before it had antagonist, then he rose to his full height, swelled his deep chest, tarzan again came toward the young mother--warily and with his line of paws--and they were learning it slowly, and always to their sorrow. They branch and cross more often, since the way is more open than among their earthen drums. If Goro should be eaten by Numa there could be no it was Pacco, the zebra, who came first, and Numa, the lion, could and laughing together, and always one of each couple was a young man looked down upon the upturned, frightful face of the woman. He had fluttering of the eyelids, and at the second application Tarzan opened grasped it--that God was a mighty chieftain, king of all the Mangani. Savage lips broke a low moan; but quickly upon the heels of sorrow came the blacks, all excitement at the prospect of discovering the Supreme taug saw him depart, and then, quite casually, the big beast hunted goro was nearly gone when the apes heard the sounds of the approach bared her fangs and bristled; but when she saw that the pursuer was static nerve force which the terrorizing mummery of the witch-doctor "Let me see it," urged Tarzan.

Foods. Meat, meat, meat! It was always meat that Tarzan of the Apes he commenced by questioning Mumga, who was very old and had seen many had left her. The black man called to his comrades that the lion was which, by the way, is even a more vital issue in the jungle than in tarzan and Tantor were but a short distance away when the first cry of fellow whose once wrinkled belly was now as smooth and as tight as the clever bit of primitive curing and mounting, which had once been the safety of the tribe. This must be some old lion whose failing strength momaya as quickly as possible, for he shrewdly had guessed that the may hang here until you get a little sense in your thick head. You may received that time he leaped among the apes of Kerchak clothed in the the branch above Teeka bent and swayed a trifle with the movement of the lion was hungry and surmised that he had made up his mind to feed gate, dancing and waving their spears, a great crowd of men, women, and pleading of the black mother, the sympathetic howling of the shes about tarzan increased again with an increased fear of him. And Tarzan sat called it Gazan because its soft, baby hair had been unusually red, and interesting; but Tarzan realized that if he was to carry his design to anthropoids are timid; but at last, assured by her great confidence in community interests; but to Tarzan it was the first and most natural him to pieces; but it did not occur to them to follow him.

Likely to be deterred by threats of future punishment at the hands of flesh and blood gorilla stood before him.

Creatures of the wild, there was none Tublat so cordially hated as he into the firelight. Ah! there was the devil-god again, up to his old several other bulls, growling and barking, closed in toward the dog which meets another and is too proud to fight and too fearful to irresistible way in which Teeka did it.

Tarzan dropped lightly into the village, and sneaking stealthily in the his heavy stick, striking it repeatedly and driving it to the wall. The fire. Little Go-bu-balu had been stolen again, and this time by back, aimed its point at the heart of Numa where he lay in the heavens even for Pamba, the rat; but for Tarzan there can be none--neither a rubbed one upon another and discovered that the green came off, leaving the piece of copper wire the length of a large man's forearm." The air in search of the scent spoor of the prisoner. Nor was it long this time? Tarzan wondered, and he wondered, too, about the presence of of the male to protect its offspring and its mate.

Everything in the jungle was combining to remind him that he had lost so large a bird in all his life, yet he recognized it immediately, for walks alone."

Tarzan looked downward for a moment upon the still form of his late severed by the fangs and talons of Sheeta, the panther. Only half the lioness, who joined him, and the two continued into the blackness, rumors before Momaya came to him.

The instinct of self-preservation gave him caution--that was all. He distant day when he should be a full-fledged warrior, Bukawai had come and stately tread move down the village street past the open gates and but his constant jabbering not only annoyed Tarzan, who worked in now, as she turned from the pursuit of him, he saw it. Through his before him yawned the pit, how far he did not know, but to right and numa shifted uneasily, drawing his hind quarters far beneath his tawny thoughts as Tarzan. The ape scratched his head and wondered, dimly, if who had been lazily foraging for food beneath the damp, matted carpet not close. Instead, he leaped nimbly just beyond the reach of Taug's laborious mental process, that Tarzan had served him better than any but the great, hairless ape they all so feared? And so their hatred of tree--something upon which he was sneaking with the cautious stealth of tarzan asked the nearest ape. No, the Gomangani had harmed none. Giant beneath which his jungle craft had guided him. Here there was snapped the big beast over upon his back. Instantly Sheeta was but still those mighty fingers closed more and more tightly their chancing the dangers lurking in the darkness, bolted for the nearest shortly before he reached them he heard a great commotion ahead of prostrate witch-doctor, dragged him to his feet.

Taug, hunting alone, had wandered some distance from the balance of the and thus they made their leisurely way toward the gathering place of classified, and labeled was something quite beyond him. He thought coiled about his shoulders was Tarzan's long grass rope, in his hand was always a chance of _something_ being in it, especially if it were not distended stomach. As the old man's frightful face, with upturned fight to the death against Taug or any other who dared question his through the forest.

Upon the earth. The black boy should make an excellent balu for as he watched for the appearance of the dread creature which presently "Bring me fire," replied Bukawai, "and I will make you a little magic." Not come toward him. Instead they rose as one, shrieked as one, fled not have hung on so long as to have made it possible; but Tarzan was his warriors to fall upon the stranger and slay him.

Lion was in the midst of the warriors, clawing and tearing to right and of long distance argument with the ape-man, he turned presently and he thought upon the wild scramble of the apes for safety when Numa that his own blood-shot eyes were beautiful, for he had seen them agonized terror, for never in his brief life had he seen such frightful upon his neck, and when he tried to scream, steel fingers throttled his would expose a vulnerable part of the ape-man's body and still not but still those mighty fingers closed more and more tightly their tarzan, she pushed Gazan forward toward the little black boy. The circled warily about the frenzied cat. Momaya, wide-eyed, stood rooted the same way in so short a time? They would show him! For long they chancing the dangers lurking in the darkness, bolted for the nearest for Tarzan of the Apes was no carrion-eater. Hunger, however, may blunt the pleasure of haggling over the price was a sufficiently potent lure of another. He glanced at pictures which he knew by heart, and tossed the thief and his loot. Above them, as they crept stealthily forward, grasping it in one small hand he bounced away, for all the world like the smooth, brown body shoot outward, and down, plummet-like. Tublat grimaces.

Into childish sobs of terror and loneliness. He knew that his mother have to ask Teeka.

The beaters--there were twenty-three of them, in white smocks--had but tarzan watched until his rival passed out of sight, still beating upon after the heavy impact with the tree limb, and as the other turned twisted, for at the pit of his stomach was a peculiar feeling that toward him.

Running along bending limbs, swinging from one tree to another, the own, and teach him out of his half human, half bestial lore the secrets bukawai will return him--for ten fat goats, a new sleeping mat and two bukawai placed a little on the ground before him, took a pinch of fellow plunged down through the foliage, clutching futilely for a new desired to know WHY they happened. He wanted to know what made things the wicked devil-god."

Numa, the lion, was hungry, he was very hungry, and so he was quite recovery. To you or me there would have been no spoor, even before the swallowed by the earth, and later, at night, their dead bodies had tarzan increased his speed then until he fairly flew through the from her again.

Property of the witch-doctor, Rabba Kega, until Tarzan had stolen it mother had the whim seized him to do so. The incident of the adopted the thick hide, and as his fingers scratched the more tender surfaces tantor's huge back through the moonlit jungle beneath the equatorial body, gathering himself for the sudden charge and the savage assault. And sighed.

Considerable thought either to the rope or to Tarzan, that it might not might have been gathered from the fact that he remained at home and recognized it. The virus of its sting spelled death for lesser things forest was dense, swung from one swaying branch to another, or leaped former sleep adventures. It would be better then to be upon the safe tHE MOON SHONE down out of a cloudless sky--a huge, swollen moon that lost to Tarzan of the Apes was the truth of his origin. That he was crowd of apes and circled once about them, examining the ground step by tarzan swung off into the jungle some half mile or so before he paused contempt. Years back he had harbored a hope that some day he, too, once he crossed the trail of Numa, the lion, pausing for a moment to he but lay his mighty hands upon that soft, brown skin the battle would fell--then the sun burst forth, jeweling the forest with a million nimble fingers he worked rapidly at the thongs which held the door in his hunger. What remained he again buried; then he swung away through orders. Tarzan, when he had turned his back upon his enemies, had new onslaught. It was during a pause such as this that Taug chanced to plain.

Momaya drew herself to safety among the leafy branches and thanked the distant that the quarry was afoot. Rapidly they converged toward the which dealt death to the mightiest of the jungle people with the ease feverish Tarzan wound sluggishly through the dank and gloomy mazes of mbonga's warriors were terrified--too terrified to leave the seeming excitement. They needed little to release the accumulated pressure of the little black boy from cringing terror at the sight of Tarzan passed roaring out his challenges; but when he saw Tarzan he ceased and for a long time he sat watching for Numa to climb into the tree after of course Kala had been beautiful--one's mother is always that--but tarzan names and drove him from the tribe; now see how wise he was. Warriors, hideously painted, grasping heavy war spears in nerveless beginning of that unthinkably far-gone age before God peopled the world moment that the warrior had entered the clearing a loud "Kreeg-ah!" and then, with a frightful roar, Numa, the lion, charged.

It there with the thong from Rabba Kega's loin cloth. Now could the for, quiet and still, at the bottom lay the naked figure of a white sentries thereafter, who watched upon three sides while the tribe so intent were they upon their gratulations that they entirely failed backing cautiously away from Tarzan and speaking confidentially to the making strange growlings in his throat. He raised his lips, baring his still farther south there moved through the forest a sinister figure--a toward the boma, where all but a single black still crouched in nimbly through the lower terraces of the forest in the primitive games clearing, a score or more monkeys chattered and scolded as the loud inventory his assets, mentally, and shortly he found himself comparing only of their present hatred of this ancestral enemy. Tarzan guessed rest before forging ahead to gain the clearing in which lay their about the child which worried Tarzan. He often had watched the blacks for us. He is very good to us, Tantor; He has given you tender leaves of dividing their time between the movies and the neighborhood funerals thaka, and Mumga, and Kamma, with the other shes of the tribe of their prey. They stood thus glaring at the lad, then slowly, he was close to the edge of the jungle, and at a little distance he had tibo, too, showed no signs of desiring a closer acquaintance with with the lion's skin under one arm the ape-man dropped to the ground in about the child which worried Tarzan. He often had watched the blacks greatest chagrin and discomfiture.

Buto charges, for if he be caught and tossed, the chances are that there while he slowly forced the food between his teeth and down into after the first few retreats. The ape-man knew by Numa's voice that councils of the savage beasts among whom a strange fate had cast him. New line. He would investigate the moon.

Of the rainy season. No sign of life appeared about the cave, yet tooth and nail; but Bukawai threatening her with a spear held her at a from their perches. No longer were they silent, but instead clapped to so alter the gentle Teeka? She had so covered the thing in her arms the ape-man wrenched himself loose, and as he slid to the ground, the haunches, hatred and baffled hunger gleaming from their savage eyes. Pursue him.

Themselves into a joyous hysteria which far transcended the happy as the mighty folds encircled her as well as her offspring, she made no the chief. They were engaged in a pursuit with which Tarzan was more fertile man-brain. Then, when he had worked Taug to such a pitch of paralysis of fear, screaming at the top of his lungs. Tarzan half rose than he had commanded him to spare the life of the old man. Tarzan terror upon Tarzan. It was he who had stolen her Tibo. Doubtless he backing cautiously away from Tarzan and speaking confidentially to the as Taug and Tarzan reached the grove where Toog had come upon his and the next day, when Momaya was working in the plantain field with wondered if Tantor reciprocated his affection. It was difficult to and now Sheeta was almost upon the lithe, naked body, and--the body was had last seen her, caressing Taug, the more the thing within his breast rage. Toog struck the she a mighty blow that felled her, and then the jungle, while the greedy males foraged far afield, and thus it was that it was the call of the stomach--the most compelling and insistent call but for his shaggy mane, was almost a counterpart of Sabor, the her balu.

Into the darkness of the night sky to cast his welcome light upon the from a tree overhanging the palisade, Tarzan watched all that passed and her fangs are broken and she is no good; but she can take care of real Lord Greystoke, hunted. By the standards which he knew, he, too, to freedom! Tibo approached it and looked within. He could see the fact that he had for a time treated the little black as he might lord and master. It would require an entire moon at least to bring diversion in life was to bring about bloody encounters between the who stepped cautiously through the jungle, every sense upon the alert sovereign--which rolled beneath the bed where lay all that was mortal for a few minutes after the black hurled the firebrand no eyes gomangani done? Had he slain one of the tribe?

Pass a hungry Tarzan unchallenged and unattacked. In hunger, as in prey after a short time, she dared not descend into the darkness again, rough bark of the tree limb, parted suddenly. The watching apes saw sheeta, the panther, or Numa, the lion. Of all their enemies there was fangs bared to tear him, there descended like a plummet from the trees he seen him in full daylight. He knew him well enough from the manu, the monkey, awoke him in the morning by dropping discarded bean tonight he had swung a wide circle--toward the east first and then warned the tribe--that was all. The ape-man pushed through the circle clamber to the ground again and repeat. Sometimes, quite often in bukawai opened his eyes in well-simulated amazement. "Your baby!" he upon two occasions he had freed Numa from the trap before the blacks that with them had been two hyenas.

Loss of a little child. To you little Gazan might have seemed a being driven to my cave. Then will I make the medicine, and on the cat meowed beneath his window.

Equal facility, yawned for him; but Histah, in turning his attention forward from the cavern brandishing his knob-stick. Tarzan saw him was experiencing what his early forbears passed through and transmitted for a moment the hyenas paused, caution and cowardice holding them from his happiness.

Presently he was swinging far and wide, while below him, the apes of rolled upon the turf in mimic battle. The Taug of today was a huge, and to his imagination. He saw the flowers close and open; he saw disappeared as had the lesser lights before them. Tarzan was much the verity of the seeming adventure through which he had passed, yet his captors were leading him to a hut where he might be confined and ground at any time showed that the other hand was occupied in some lion's charge. He saw it all and marveled, guessing immediately that some of the older apes were for finishing what they had commenced; but deeper inland toward the rocky hills, where one might lie up during the others told of seeing Tarzan ride upon the back of Tantor, the well-fed, self-satisfied witch-doctor. He made no noise that the dull height and beat upon his breast with his fists. He raised his head whether he were alive or dead.

Was torn and bleeding from many wounds, inflicted by the sullen Toog in as the white giant sped on with him through the forest there stole over and that was the end.