e tribe started slowly back thro
had fallen, for the people of Ke
und in abundance, with wild pineapple, and occasionally small mammals, birds, eggs, reptiles, and insec
the higher branches, for if she respected their number and their sharp fan
orged silently through the thick jungle. He hurled a pineapple at the ancient enemy o
eat lips in a hideous snarl that wrinkled her bristling snout in serried
pes and sounded her fierce, shrill challenge. And from the safety of his
d then the great cat turned into the jungle, which
Tublat, so was he not therefore a mighty fighter? Now would he track down
akedness with CLOTHES for he had learned from his picture books that all MEN w
gnia of the superiority of MAN over all other animals, for sure
t no longer resemble hideous Histah, the snake; but now he was proud of his sleek skin for it betokened his descent from a mighty race, and the conflicting desires to go naked
sing of Sabor, Tarzan's head was filled with his great scheme for slay
y had other and more immediate in
he trees stood motionless as though in paralyzed expectancy of som
d moaning. Nearer and nearer it approach
ty hand. Farther and farther toward the ground they inclined, and st
t. A vivid and blinding light flashed from the whirling, inky clouds above. The deep cannonade of roari
t trees. The lightning, darting and flashing through the blackness,
ash in a thousand pieces among the surrounding trees, carrying down numberless branc
hurtled through the wildly waving verdure, carrying death and destruc
ivering fear. In constant danger from falling trunks and branches and paralyzed by the vivid flashi
ning. The wind ceased, the sun sho
ned in the splendor of the returning day. And, so - as Nature forgot, her childre
f CLOTHES. How snug he would have been beneath the heavy coat o
k up the greater portion of his time, but always when journeying through the forest he kept his rop
lunge for freedom toppled Tarzan from the overhanging limb where h
dy, and, seeing only the easy prey of a young ape, he l
o take up the shock. He was on his feet in an instant and, leaping with the agility of the m
perience the limitations as well as t
who had thus dragged him from his perch the outcome might have been ver
e he went forth purposely to hunt, and lie in wait among the dense folia
did not want such insignificant game. It would take
lithe sinews rolling beneath shimmering hi
ow trail. Her head was high in ever alert attention; her
of the Apes crouched upon his limb, the coi
Sabor passed beneath. One stride beyond she took - a seco
tect the origin of the swishing sound of the rope, it settled about her neck. With a quick jerk Tarzan snapped
was tr
from experience. The lioness had taken but half her second bound when she felt the rope tighten about her neck; her body turned completely over in t
crotch of two mighty branches, he found that dragging the mighty, struggling, clawing, biting, sc
he braced her huge paws nothing less than Tanto
en placed upon her. Screaming with rage she suddenly charged, leaping high into the air toward Ta
raging captive. For a moment Sabor hung half across the branch, while
but Sabor had now found that it was only a slender cord that held her, and grasping it i
naught, so he sat there screaming at the roaring cr
crouched and sprang at the dancing sprite above her, but might as well
uit that spread soft and sticky over the snarling face of his enemy, he swung rapidly through th
nd so considerable swagger that he quite impressed even his bitterest