The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1914-01-09

AS Tarzan grew he made more rapid
strides, so that by the time he was ten
years old he was an excellent climber
and on the ground could do many won
derfu things which were beyond the
powers of his little brothers and sisters.
In many ways did he differ from
them, and they often marveled at his
superior cunning. but in strength and
size he was deficient, for at ten the
great anthropoids were fully grown,
some of them towering over six feet
in height, while little Tarzan was still
but half grown boy.
Yet such boy!
From early infancy he had used his
hands to swing from branch to branch
after the manner of his giant mother,
and as he grew older he spent hour
upon hour daily speeding through the
treetops with his brothers and sisters
He could spring twenty feet across
space at the dizzy heights of the forest
top and grasp with unerring precision
and without apparent jar limb wav-
ing wildly in the path of an approach
ing tornado.
He could drop twenty feet at
stretch from limb to limb in rapid de-
scent to the ground. or he could gain
the utmost pinnacle of the Hottest trop-
zeal giant with the ease and swiftness
of a squirrel. Though but ten years
old. he was fully as strong as the aver
age man of thirty and far more agile
than the NEST 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 ia
miliar.
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
1t 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,. 1t had been
bad enough to be hairless. but to own
such cOuntenance! 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 as a 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 PAGES behind the two he
crouched-Sab Dor. the tiger-lashing his
tail Cautiously he moved a great |
padded paw forward. noiselessly plac-
ing it before he lifted the next Thus |
he advanced. his belly low. almost |
touching the surface of the ground-a |
great cat preparing to spring upon it's |
ptey.
Now he was within ten feet of the |
fyv0 nj
Carefully he drew his hind feet we'll !,
up beneath his body. the great muscles |
rolling under the beautiful skin of !
black and yellow So low he was |
crouching that he seemed 1attened to
the earth except for the upward bend |
of the glossy back as it gathered for |
the spring.
No longer the tail dashed. Quiet and |
straight behind him 1t lay.