The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-04-28

TT Horta. This done, he buried the bal ance of the carcass in the soft earth outside the cabin for his evening meal.
 Once more he took his rope and van ished into the jungle. This time ne hunted nobler quarry-man, although. had you asked him his own opinion, he could have named a dozen other den1- zens of the jungle which he considered far the superiors in nobility of the men he hunted. Today Tarzan was in quest of weapons. He wondered if the women and children had remained in Mbonga' $ village after the punitive ex- petition from the French cruiser had massacred all the warriors in revenge for D'Arnot's supposed death. He, hoped that he should find warriors there, for he knew not how long quest he should have to make were the village deserted.
 The ape-man tra veIed swiftly through the forest and about noon came to the site of the village, but to his d1sap- pointmen found that the jungle had overgrown the plantaiu fields and that the thatched huts had fallen in decay. There was no sign of man. He clam bered about among the ruins for half an hour, hoping that he might discover some forgotten weapon, but his search was without fruit, and so he took up his quest once more, following up the stream, which flowed from south easterly direction He knew that near fresh water he would be most likely to find another settlement.
 5 As he travelled he hunted as he had hunted with his ape people in the past, las Ka1a. his ape foster mother, had taught him to hunt, turning over root ed logs to find some toothsome vermin, running high into the trees to rob+sa rodent. with the cuickness of 8 cat. There were other things that he ate, too, but the less detailed the account of an apes diet the better and Tarzan was again an ape, the same fierce, brutal anthropoid that Kala had taught him to be and that he had been for the first twenty years Of his life. Occasionally he smiled as he recall ed some friend who might even at the
 moment be sitting placid and immacu- I late within the precincts of his select Parisian club just as Tarzan had sat but few months before and then he would stop, as though turned sudaen- I ly to stone as the gentle breeze car Tied to his trained nostrils the scent of 1 some new prey or Formidable enemy. That night he slept far Inland from his cabin, securely wedged into the l crotch of a giant tree, swayfng a hum I dred feet above the ground. He had eaten heartily again this time from 1 the flesh of Bara the deer, who had fallen prey to his quick moose.
 l Early the next morning he resumed 2 37L.sz 1z l course Of the stream. For three days
 he continued his quest until he had
 come to part of the jungle in which l he never before had been. Occasional l ly upon higher ground the forest was l much thinner, and in the far distance J through the trees he could see ranges 5 of mighty mountains, with wide plains l in the Foreground. Here in the open q spaces were new game countless ante 1 lope and vast herds of zebra. Tarzan I was entranced. He would make a l long visit to this new world
 l On the morning of the fourth day his .l nostrils were suddenly surprised by 8
 faint, new scent. It was the scent of
 man, but yet long way of. The ape 1 man thrilled with pleasure. Livery
 sense was on the alert as with crafty q stealth he moved quickly through the
 
 prey. Presently he came upon ita lone warrior treaiing softly through the Jungle
 1 Tarzan followed close above his Hl quarry, waiting for clearer space in
 which to hurl his rope As he stalked l the unconscious man new thoughts presented themselves to the ape man thoughts born of the refining inf1u-
 ences of civilization and of it's cruel ties It came to him that seldom If
 ever did civilized man kill fellow
 being without some pretext, however 4 slight It was true that Tarzan wished
 this mans weapons and ornaments,
 but was it necessary to take his life
 to obtain them
 The longer he thought about it the
 more repugnant became the thought
 of taking human life needlessly, and
 thus it happened that while he was
 trying to decide just what to do they
 had come to little clearing, at thf
 far side of which lay palisaded vii
 lage of beehive huts.
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