Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-05-24
TARTAN OF THE APES
THE THRILLING ADVENTURES OF A PRIMEvAL MAN
AND AN AMERICAN Girl.
BY EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS

Horta, the boar, ane his mad lunge for
freedom toppled Tarzan from the over
hanging limb where he had lain IN wait
ana from whence he had launched his
sinuous coil.
The mighty tusker turned at the sound
OF his falling body. and, seeing only the
easy prey of young ape, he lowered his
head and charged madly at the surprised
youth
Tarzan, happily was uninjured by the
fall, alighting catlike upon all fours far
outspread to take up the shock. He was
on his feet in an instant and, leaping
with the agility of the monkey he was.
he gained the safety Of low limb as
Horta, the boar rushed futilely beneath.
Thus It was that Tarzan learned by
experience the limitations as we'll as the
possibilities of his strange weapon.
He lost long rope on this occasion,
but he knew that had Il been Sabor. who
had thus dragged him from his perch the
outcome migNt have been very different.
for he would have lost his life. doubt
less, into the bargain
1t took him many da"s to braid a new
rope, but when, finally, II was done he
went forth purposely to hunt. and lie in
walt among the dense foliage of a great
branch right above n well-beaten trail
that led to water.
Several small animals passed unharmed
beneath him. He did not want such in
significant game. 1t would take strong
animal to test the efficacy OF his new
scheme.
At last came she whom Tarzan sought
with 1.-THE sinews rolling beneath SHIN
mering hide; fat and glossy came Sabor,
the lioness.
Her great padued feet fell soft and
noiseless on the narrow trail. Her head
was high in ever alert attentions her
long tail moved slowly in sinuous and
graceful undulations.
Nearer and nearer she came to where
Tarzan Of the Apes crouched upon his
limb, the coils of his long rope poised
ready in his hand.
Like n thing of bronze. motionless as
death, sat Tarzan Sabor passed beneath.
One stride beyond she took-a second. a
third. and then the silent coil shot out
above her.
For an instant the spreading moose
hung above her head like a great snake
and then, as she looked upward to de-
tect the origin of the swishng sound of
the rope, II settled about her neck. with
quick jerk Tarzan snapped the moose
tight about the glossy throat. and then
he dropped the rope and slung to his
support with both hands.
Sabor was trapped.
With a bound the startled beast turned
into the Jungle, but Tarzan was not to
lose another rope through the same
experience. The lionesr had taken but
half her second bound when she felt the
rope tighten about her neck; her body
turned completely over in the air and
she fell with n heavy crash upon her
back. Tarzan had fastened the end Of
the rope securely to the trunk of the
great tree on which he sat.
Thus far his plan had worked to per-
fection, but when he grasped the rope,
bracing himself behind a crotch of two
mighty bra nches. he found that dragging
the mighty struggling, clawing. biting
screaming mass of iron-muscled fury up
to the tree and hanging her was very
different proposition.
The weight of old SaboT was immense
and when she braced her huge paws moth
ing less than Tantor, the elephant, him
self could have budged her
The loness was now back in the path
where she could see the author of the in
dignity which had been placed upon her.
Screaming with rage she suddenly
charged, leapnG high into the air toward
Tarzan. but when her huge body struck
the limb on which Tarzan had been
Tarzan was no longer there.
Instead he perched lightly upon a
smaller branch 20 feet above the raging
captive. For n moment Sabor hung half
across the branch, while Tarzan Knocked,
and hurled twigs and branches at her
unprotected face.
Presently the beast dropped to the
earth again and Tarzan came quickly to