Bisbee daily review., 1914-01-25

Hd could drop twenty feet at 1 stretch from limb to limb in rapid de- scent to the ground. or he could gain the utmost pinnacle of the loftiest trop- ical giant with the ease and swiftness of squirrel Though but ten years old. he was fully as strong as the aver. age man of thirty and far more agile | than the most practiced athlete ever becomes. And day by day his strength was increasing
 His life among the fierce apes had been happy. for his recollection held no other life. nor did he know that there existed within the universe aught else than his little forest and the wild jungle animals with which he was fa- mlliar
 He was nearly ten before he com ! menced to realize that a great differ ence existed between himself and his fellows. His little body. burned al- most black by exposure. suddenly caus. ed him feelings of intense shame, for he realized that it was entirely hair less. like some low snake or reptile.
 In the higher land which his tribe
 frequented was a little lake. and it was here that Tarzan first saw his face in the clear. still waters of its bosom.
 It was on a sultry day of the dry season that he and one of his cousins
 had gone down to the bank to drink.
 As they leaned over both little faces
 were mirrored on the placid pool, the
 fierce and terrible features of the ape
 beside those of the aristocratic scion
 of an old English house.
 Tarzan was appalled, It had been
 bad enough to be hairless. but to own
 such countenancel He wondered that
 the other apes could look at him at all.
 So intent was he upon his personal
 appraisement of his features that he
 did not hear the parting of the tall
 grass behind him us great body
 pushed itself stealthily through the
 jungle. nor did his companion. the ape,
 hear either, for he was drinking. and
 the noise of his sucking lips drowned the quiet approach of the intruder. Not thirty paces behind the two he
 crouched-Sabor. the tiger-lashlng his
 tail Cautiously he moved great
 Iuuutu lfuh ublNtltcHlN IliuN- ing it before he lifted the next Thus he advanced. his belly low. almost
 tonchlng the surface of the ground-a l great cat preparing to spring upon its . p;ey.
 Now he was within ten feet of the ] two unsuspecting little playfelows.
 Carefully he drew his hind feet well l up beneath his body, the great muscles , rolling under the beautiful skin of ? black and yellow. So low he was crouching that he seemed fattened to
 the earth except for the upward bend ? of the glossy back as 1t gathered for 1 the spring.
 I No longer the tail lashed Quiet and
 straight behind him it lay Q An instant he paused thus as though 3 turned to stone. and then, with an aw- l ful scream. he sprang
 ' Sabor, the tiger, was wise hunter.
 To one less wise the wild alarm of his 2 fierce cry as he sprang would have y seemed foolish thing. for could he | not more surely have fallen upon his
 victims had he but quietly leaped with l. out that loud shriek?
 '' But Sabor knew well the wondrous D quickness of the Jungle folk and their | almost unbelievable powers of hearing. !, To them the sudden scraping of one O blade of grass across another was as h effectual warning as his loudest cry.
 and SabOr knew that he could not r make that leap without little noise. y His wild scream was not a warning. IT but Instead was meant to freeze his IS poor victims in a paralysis of terror e for the tiny fraction of an instant, d which would suffice for his mighty q claws to sink into their soft flesh and ?. hold them beyond peradventure of es Y cape.
 In so far as the ape was concerned d sabor reasoned correctly. The little n fellow crouched trembling just an in IT stant but that instant was quite long r. enough to prove his undoing. e Not so. however. with Tarzan. the s. man-child. Before him lay the deer n waters of the little lake. behind hin Is certain death-a cruel death beneatl d tearing claws and rending fangs. e Tarzan had always hated water. ex
 
 ., cept as a medium for quenching hi' # thirst He hated 1t because he con Il nected 1t with the chill and discomfort
 of the torrential rains. and he feared
 1t for the thunder and lightning anG Is wind which accompanied 1t. h But of the two evils his quick min' r. chose the lesser. and before the grea IF beast had covered half his leap Tarzal Ie felt the chill waters close above bi s. head.
 IS He could not swim. and the wate st was very deep. But still he lost n' n particle of that self reliance and re v. sourcefulness which were the badge D. of his superior being
 Rapidly he moved his hands and fee