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01 - The Golden Lion · Tarzan and the Golden Lion

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  Speaker 1: Chapter one, The Golden Lion. Sabor, the lioness, suckled her young,
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  Speaker 1: a single fuzzy ball, spotted like Sheita the leopard. She
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  Speaker 1: lay in the warm sunshine before the rocky cavern that
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  Speaker 1: was her lair, stretched out upon her side with half
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  Speaker 1: closed eyes. Yet Saber was alert. There had been three
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  Speaker 1: of these little fuzzy balls at first, two daughters and
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  Speaker 1: a son, and Sabor and Numa. Their sire had been
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  Speaker 1: proud of them, proud and happy. But kills had not
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  Speaker 1: been plentiful, and Sabor, undernourished, had been unable to produce
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  Speaker 1: sufficient milk to nourish properly three lusty cubs. And then
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  Speaker 1: a cold rain had come and the little ones had sickened.
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  Speaker 1: Only the strongest survived. The two daughters had died. Sabor
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  Speaker 1: had mourned, pacing to and fro beside the pitiful bits
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  Speaker 1: of bedraggled fur, whining and moaning. Now and again she
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  Speaker 1: would nose them with her muzzle, as though she would
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  Speaker 1: awaken them from the long sleep that knows no waking.
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  Speaker 1: At last, however, she abandoned her efforts, and now her
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  Speaker 1: whole savage heart was filled with concern for the little
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  Speaker 1: mail cub that remained to her. That was why Sabor
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  Speaker 1: was more alert than usual. Numa the lion was away.
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  Speaker 1: Two nights before he had made a kill and dragged
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  Speaker 1: it to their lair, and last night he had fared
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  Speaker 1: forth again, but he had not returned. Saber was thinking,
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  Speaker 1: as she half dozed of Wappi, the plump antelope, that
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  Speaker 1: her splendid mate might this very minute be dragging through
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  Speaker 1: the tangled jungle to her. Or perhaps it would be Paco,
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  Speaker 1: the zebra, whose flesh was the best loved of her kind. Juicy,
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  Speaker 1: succulent Paco. Sabor's mouth watered. Ah, what was that? The
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  Speaker 1: shadow of a sound had come to those keen ears.
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  Speaker 1: She raised her head, cocking it first upon one side
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  Speaker 1: and then the other, as with up pricked ears. She
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  Speaker 1: sought to catch the faintest repetition of that which had
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  Speaker 1: disturbed her. Her nose sniffed the air. There was but
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  Speaker 1: the suggestion of a breeze. But what there was moved
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  Speaker 1: toward her from the direction of the sound she had heard,
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  Speaker 1: and which she still heard in a slightly increasing volume
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  Speaker 1: that told her that whatever was making it was approaching her.
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  Speaker 1: As it drew closer. The beast's nervousness increased, and she
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  Speaker 1: rolled over on her belly, shutting off the milk supply
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  Speaker 1: from the cup, which vented its disapproval in miniature growls,
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  Speaker 1: until a low, querulous wine from the lioness silenced him.
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  Speaker 1: Then he stood at her side, looking first at her
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  Speaker 1: and then in the direction towards which she looked, cocking
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  Speaker 1: his little head first on one side and then on
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  Speaker 1: the other. Evidently there was a disturbing quality in the
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  Speaker 1: sound that Sabor heard, something that inspired a certain restlessness,
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  Speaker 1: if not actual apprehension, though she could not be sure
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  Speaker 1: as yet that it boded ill. It might be her
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  Speaker 1: great lord returning, but it did not sound like the
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  Speaker 1: movement of a lion, certainly not like a lion carrying
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  Speaker 1: a heavy kill. She glanced at her cub, breathing as
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  Speaker 1: she did so, a plaintive wine. There was always the
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  Speaker 1: fear that some danger menaced him, this last of her
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  Speaker 1: little family, But she save what the Lioness was there
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  Speaker 1: to defend him. Presently, the breeze brought to her nostrils
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  Speaker 1: the scent spore of the thing that moved toward her
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  Speaker 1: through the jungle. Instantly, the troubled mother face was metamorphosed
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  Speaker 1: into a bare fagmed, glittering eyed mask of savage race.
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  Speaker 1: For the scent that had come to her through the
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  Speaker 1: jungle was the hated man scent. She rose to her feet,
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  Speaker 1: her head flattened, her sinuous tail twitching nervously. Through that
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  Speaker 1: strange medium by which animals communicate with one another, she
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  Speaker 1: cautioned her cub to lie down and remain where he
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  Speaker 1: was until she returned. Then she moved rapidly and silently
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  Speaker 1: to meet the intruder. The cub had heard, was mother heard,
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  Speaker 1: And now he caught the smell of man, an unfamiliar
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  Speaker 1: smell that had never impinged upon his nostrils before, yet
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  Speaker 1: a smell that he knew at once for that of
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  Speaker 1: an enemy, a smell that brought a reaction as typical
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  Speaker 1: as that which marked the attitude of a grown lioness,
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  Speaker 1: bringing the hairs along his little spine erect and bearing
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  Speaker 1: his tiny fangs. As the adult moved quickly and stealthily
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  Speaker 1: into the underbrush, the small cub, ignoring her injunction, followed
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  Speaker 1: after her, his hind quarters wobbling from side to side,
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  Speaker 1: after the manner of the very young of his kind.
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  Speaker 1: The ridiculous gait, comporting ill with the dignified bearing of
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  Speaker 1: his fore quarters. But the lioness, intent upon that which
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  Speaker 1: lay before her, did not know that he followed her her.
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  Speaker 1: There was dinse jungle before the two for a hundred yards,
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  Speaker 1: but through it the lions had worn a tunnel like
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  Speaker 1: path to their lair. And then there was a small
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  Speaker 1: clearing through which ran a well worn jungle trail, out
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  Speaker 1: of the jungle at one end of the clearing and
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  Speaker 1: into the jungle again at the other. As Sabore reached
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  Speaker 1: the clearing, she saw the object of her fear and
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  Speaker 1: hatred well within it. What if the main thing were
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  Speaker 1: not hunting her or hers? What if he even dreamed
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  Speaker 1: not of their presence? These facts were as nothing to
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  Speaker 1: say board the lioness to day. Ordinarily, she would have
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  Speaker 1: let him pass unmolested, so long as he did not
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  Speaker 1: come close enough to threaten the safety of her cub
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  Speaker 1: or cubliss. She would have slunk away at the first
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  Speaker 1: intimation of his approach. But today the lioness was nervous
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  Speaker 1: and fearful, fearful because of the single cub that remained
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  Speaker 1: to her. Her maternal instincts centered threefold, perhaps upon this
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  Speaker 1: lone and triply loved survivor. And so she did not
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  Speaker 1: wait for the man to threaten the safety of her
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  Speaker 1: little one, but instead she moved to meet him and
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  Speaker 1: to stop him from the soft mother. She had become
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  Speaker 1: a terrifying creature of destruction, her brain obsessed by a
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  Speaker 1: single thought to kill. She did not hesitate an instant
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  Speaker 1: at the edge of the clearing, nor did she give
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  Speaker 1: the slightest warning. The first intimation that the Black warrior
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  Speaker 1: had that there was a lion within twenty miles of
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  Speaker 1: him was the terrifying apparition of this devil faced cat
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  Speaker 1: charging across the clearing toward him with the speed of
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  Speaker 1: an arrow. The Black was not searching for lions. Had
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  Speaker 1: he known there was one near, he would have given
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  Speaker 1: it a wide berth. He would have fled now, had
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  Speaker 1: there been anywhere to flee. The nearest tree was farther
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  Speaker 1: from him than was the lioness. She could overhaul him
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  Speaker 1: before he could have covered a quarter of the distance.
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  Speaker 1: There was no hope, and there was only one thing
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  Speaker 1: to do. The beast was almost upon him, and behind
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  Speaker 1: her he saw a tiny cub. The man bore a
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  Speaker 1: heavy spear. He carried it far back with his right
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  Speaker 1: hand and hurled it at the very instant that Sabor
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  Speaker 1: rose to seize him. The spear passed through the savage heart,
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  Speaker 1: and almost simultaneously, the giant jaws closed upon the face
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  Speaker 1: and skull of the warrior. The momentum of the lioness
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  Speaker 1: carried the two heavily to the ground, dead except for
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  Speaker 1: a few spismonic twitches of their muscles. The orphaned cub
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  Speaker 1: stopped twenty feet away and surveyed the first great catastrophe
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  Speaker 1: of his life with questioning eyes. He wanted to approach
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  Speaker 1: his dam, but a natural fear of the man sent
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  Speaker 1: held him away. Presently, he commenced to whine in a
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  Speaker 1: tone that always brought his mother to him hurriedly. But
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  Speaker 1: this time she did not come. She did not even
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  Speaker 1: rise and look at him. He was puzzled. He could
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  Speaker 1: not understand it. He continued to cry, feeling all the
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  Speaker 1: while more sad and more lonely. Gradually he crept closer
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  Speaker 1: to his mother. He saw that the strange creature she
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  Speaker 1: had killed did not move, and after a while he
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  Speaker 1: felt less terror of it, so that at last he
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  Speaker 1: found the courage to come quite close to his mother
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  Speaker 1: and sniff at her. He still whined to her, but
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  Speaker 1: she did not answer. It dawned on him at last
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  Speaker 1: that there was something wrong, that this great, beautiful mother
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  Speaker 1: was not as she had been, a change had come
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  Speaker 1: over her. Yet still he clung to her, crying much,
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  Speaker 1: until at last he fell asleep, cuddled close to her
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  Speaker 1: dead body. It was thus that Tarzan found him. Tarzan
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  Speaker 1: and Jane, his wife, and their son Korak the Killer,
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  Speaker 1: returning from the mysterious land of paul o'l Dawn, from
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  Speaker 1: which the two men had rescued Jane Clayton. At the
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  Speaker 1: sound of their approach, the cub opened his eyes and rising,
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  Speaker 1: flattened his ears and snarled at them, backing close against
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  Speaker 1: his dead mother. At the sight of him, the ape
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  Speaker 1: man smiled. Plucky little devil, he commented, taking in the
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  Speaker 1: story of the tragedy. At a single glance. He approached
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  Speaker 1: the spitting cub, expecting it to turn and run away,
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  Speaker 1: but it did nothing of the sort. Instead, it snarled
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  Speaker 1: more ferociously and struck at his extended hand as he
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  Speaker 1: stooped and reached for it. What a brave little fellow,
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  Speaker 1: cried Jane, poor little orphan, he's going to make a
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  Speaker 1: great lion where he would have if his dam had lived,
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  Speaker 1: said Korak. Look at that back, as straight and strong
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  Speaker 1: as a spear. Too bad, the little rascal has got
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  Speaker 1: to die. He doesn't have to die, returned Tarzan. There's
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  Speaker 1: not much tands for him. He'll need milk for a
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  Speaker 1: couple months more. And who's going to get it for him?
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  Speaker 1: I am, replied Tarzan. You're going to adopt him. Tarzan nodded.
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  Speaker 1: Korak and Jane laughed. That'll be fine. Lord Greystoke, foster,
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  Speaker 1: mother to the son of Numa, laughed Jane. Tarzan smiled
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  Speaker 1: with them, but he did not cease his attentions toward
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  Speaker 1: the cub. Reaching out suddenly, he caught the little lion
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  Speaker 1: by the scruff of its neck, and then stroking it gently,
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  Speaker 1: he talked to it in a low, crooning tone. I
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  Speaker 1: do not know what he said, but perhaps the cub did,
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  Speaker 1: for presently it ceased its struggles and no longer sought
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  Speaker 1: to scratch or bite the caressing hand. After that, he
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  Speaker 1: picked it up and held it against his breast. It
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  Speaker 1: did not seem afraid now, nor did it even bear
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  Speaker 1: its fangs against this close proximity to the erstwhile hated
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  Speaker 1: man sent How do you do it? Exclaimed Jane Clayton.
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  Speaker 1: Tarzan shrugged his broad shoulders. Your kind are not afraid
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  Speaker 1: of you. These are really my kind. Try to civilize
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  Speaker 1: me as you will, and perhaps that is why they
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  Speaker 1: are not afraid of me when I give them the
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  Speaker 1: signs of friendship. Even this little rascal seems to know it,
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  Speaker 1: doesn't he. I can never understand it, commented Korak. I
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  Speaker 1: think I am rather familiar with African animals, yet I
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  Speaker 1: haven't the power over them or the understanding that you have.
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  Speaker 1: Why is it there is but one Tarzan, said Lady Greystoake,
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  Speaker 1: smiling at her son teasingly, and yet her tone was
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  Speaker 1: not without a note of pride. Remember that I was
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  Speaker 1: born among beasts and raised by beasts, Tarzan reminded him. Perhaps,
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  Speaker 1: after all, my father was an ape. You know, Kayla
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  Speaker 1: always insisted that he was John. How can you, exclaimed Jane,
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  Speaker 1: You know perfectly well who your father and mother were.
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  Speaker 1: Tarzan looked solemnly at his son and closed one eye.
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  Speaker 1: Your mother never can learn to appreciate the fine qualities
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  Speaker 1: of the anthropoids. One might almost think that she objected
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  Speaker 1: to the suggestion that she had made it with one
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  Speaker 1: of them. John Clayton, I shall never speak to you
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  Speaker 1: again if you don't stop saying such hideous things. I
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  Speaker 1: am ashamed of you. It is bad enough that you
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  Speaker 1: are an unregenerate wild man without trying to suggest that
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  Speaker 1: you may be an ape into the bargain. The long
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  Speaker 1: journey from Paulo Dam was almost completed. Inside the weak
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  Speaker 1: they should be again at the sight of their former home.
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  Speaker 1: Whether anything now remained of the ruins the Germans had
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  Speaker 1: left was problematical. The barns and outhouses had all been burned,
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  Speaker 1: and the interior of the bungalow partially wrecked. Those of
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  Speaker 1: the Wazirri, the faithful native retainers of the Gray Stoaks
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  Speaker 1: who had not been killed by hopped men, Fritch Schnyders soldiers,
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  Speaker 1: had rallied to the beat of the war drum and
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  Speaker 1: gone to place themselves at the disposal of the English,
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  Speaker 1: in whatever capacity they might be found useful to the
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  Speaker 1: great cause of humanity. This much Tarzan had known before
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  Speaker 1: he set out in search of Lady Jane. But how
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  Speaker 1: many of his warlike Waziri had survived the war, and
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  Speaker 1: what further had befallen his vast estates. He did not know.
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  Speaker 1: Wandering tribes of natives or raiding bands of Arab slavers
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  Speaker 1: might have completed the demolition inaugurated by the Hunt. And
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  Speaker 1: it was likely too that the Jungle had swept up
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  Speaker 1: and reclaimed its own, covering his clearings and burying amidst
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  Speaker 1: its riot of lush vendure every sign of Mann's brief
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  Speaker 1: trespass upon its world old preserves. Following the adoption of
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  Speaker 1: the tiny Numa, Tarzan was compelled to an immediate consideration
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  Speaker 1: of the needs of his protege in planting his marches
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  Speaker 1: and his halts. For the cub must have sustenance, and
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  Speaker 1: that sustenance could be not but milk. Lion's milk was
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  Speaker 1: out of the question. But fortunately they were now in
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  Speaker 1: a comparatively well peopled country, where villages were not infrequent,
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  Speaker 1: and where the great Lord of the Jungle was known, feared,
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  Speaker 1: and respected. And so it was that, upon the afternoon
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  Speaker 1: of the day he had found the young Lion, Tarzan
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  Speaker 1: approached a village for the purpose of obtaining milk for
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  Speaker 1: the cub At first, the natives appeared sullen and indifferent,
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  Speaker 1: looking with contempt upon whites who traveled without a large safari,
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  Speaker 1: with contempt and without fear. With no safari, these strangers
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  Speaker 1: could carry no presents for them, nor anything wherewith to
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  Speaker 1: repay for the food they would doubtless desire. And with
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  Speaker 1: no askari, they could not demand food, or rather, they
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  Speaker 1: could not enforce an order, nor could they protect themselves,
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  Speaker 1: should it seem worth while to molest them. Sullen and
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  Speaker 1: indifferent the natives seemed, yet they were scarce, unconcerned, their
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  Speaker 1: curiosity being aroused by the unusual apparel in ornamentation of
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  Speaker 1: these whites. They saw them almost as naked as themselves,
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  Speaker 1: and arms similarly, except that one, the younger man, carried
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  Speaker 1: a rifle. All three wore the trappings of Paul yuldn
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  Speaker 1: primitive and barbaric, and entirely strange to the eyes of
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  Speaker 1: the simple blacks. Where is your chief? Asked Tarzan, as
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  Speaker 1: he strode into the village amongst the women, the children,
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  Speaker 1: and the yapping dogs. A few dozen warriors rose from
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  Speaker 1: the shadows of the huts where they had been lying,
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  Speaker 1: and approached the newcomers. The chief sleeps, replied one, Who
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  Speaker 1: are you to awaken him? What do you want? I
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  Speaker 1: wish to speak to your chief, Go and fetch him.
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  Speaker 1: The warrior looked at him in wide eyed maze, and
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  Speaker 1: then broke into a loud laugh. The chief must be
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  Speaker 1: brought to him, he cried, addressing his fellows, and then
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  Speaker 1: laughing loudly. He slapped his thigh and nudged those nearest
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  Speaker 1: him with his elbows. Tell him, continued the ape man,
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  Speaker 1: that tarzan would speak with him. Instantly. The attitude of
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  Speaker 1: his auditors underwent a remarkable transformation. They fell back from him,
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  Speaker 1: and they ceased laughing, their eyes very wide and round.
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  Speaker 1: He who had laughed loudest, became suddenly solemn. Bring mats.
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  Speaker 1: He cried for tarzan Is people to sit upon while
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  Speaker 1: I fetch Umanga the chief, and off he ran as
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  Speaker 1: fast as he could, as though glad of an excuse
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  Speaker 1: to escape the presence of the mighty one he feared
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  Speaker 1: he had offended. It made no difference now that they
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  Speaker 1: had no safari, no scary nor any presents. The villagers
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  Speaker 1: were vying with one another to do them honor. Even
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  Speaker 1: before the chief came, many had already brought presents of
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  Speaker 1: food and ornaments. Presently Umanga appeared. He was an old
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  Speaker 1: man who had been a chief even before Tarzan of
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  Speaker 1: the Apes was born. His manner was patriarchal and dignified,
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  Speaker 1: and he greeted his guest as one great man might
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  Speaker 1: greet another. Yet he was undeniably pleased that the lord
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  Speaker 1: of the jungle had honored his village with a visit.
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  Speaker 1: When Tarzan explained his wishes and exhibited the lion cub,
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  Speaker 1: Umaga assured him that there would be milk plenty so
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  Speaker 1: long as Tarzan honored them with his presence, warm milk
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  Speaker 1: fresh from the chief's own goats. As they pilavered, the
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  Speaker 1: ape man's keen eyes took in every detail of the
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  Speaker 1: village and its people, and presently they alighted upon a
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  Speaker 1: large bitch among the numerous curs that overran the huts
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  Speaker 1: in the street. Her utter was swollen with milk, and
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  Speaker 1: the sight of it suggested a plan to Tarzan. He
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  Speaker 1: jerked a thumb in the direction of the animal. I
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  Speaker 1: would buy her, he said to Umanga. She is yours.
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  Speaker 1: Bona without payment, replied the chief. She whelped two days since,
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  Speaker 1: and last night her pups were all stolen from her nest,
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  Speaker 1: doubtless by a great snake. But if you will accept them,
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  Speaker 1: I will give you instead as many younger and fatter
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  Speaker 1: dogs as you wish for. I am sure that this
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  Speaker 1: one would prove poor eating. I do not wish to
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  Speaker 1: eat her, replied Tarzan. I will take her along with
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  Speaker 1: me to furnish milk for the cup. Have her brought
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  Speaker 1: to me. Some boys then caught the animal, and, tying
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  Speaker 1: a thong about its neck, dragged it to the ape man.
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  Speaker 1: Like the lion, the dog was at first afraid, for
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  Speaker 1: the scent of the Tarmangani was not as the scent
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  Speaker 1: of the blacks, and it snarled and snapped at its
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  Speaker 1: new master. But at length he won the animal's confidence,
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  Speaker 1: so that it lay quietly beside him while he stroked
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  Speaker 1: its head. To get the lion close to it was, however,
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  Speaker 1: another matter, for here both were terrified by the enemy's
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  Speaker 1: scent of the other. The lion snarled and spitting, and
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  Speaker 1: the dog bear fanged and growling. It required patience, infinite patience,
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  Speaker 1: But at last the thing was an accomplished fact, and
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  Speaker 1: the kurbitch suckled the son of Numa hunger was succeeded
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  Speaker 1: in overcoming the natural suspicion of the lion, while the
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  Speaker 1: firm yet kindly attitude of the ape man had won
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  Speaker 1: the confidence of the canine, which had been accustomed through
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  Speaker 1: life to more of cuffs and kicks than kindness. That night,
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  Speaker 1: Tarzan had the dog tied in the hut he occupied,
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  Speaker 1: and twice before morning he made her lie while the
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  Speaker 1: cub fed. The next day they took leave of Umanga
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  Speaker 1: and his people, and with the dog, still upon a leash,
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  Speaker 1: trotting beside them, they set off once more toward home.
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  Speaker 1: The young lion, cuddled in the hollow of one of
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  Speaker 1: Tarzan's arms, were carried in a sack slung across the shoulder.
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  Speaker 1: They named the lion jabbald Jaw, which in the language
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  Speaker 1: of the hythrocanthropy of Polyoldon means the golden lion, because
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  Speaker 1: of his color. Every day he became more accustomed to
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  Speaker 1: them and to his foster mother, who finally came to
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  Speaker 1: accept him as flesh of her flesh, the bitch they
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  Speaker 1: called Zaw, meaning girl. The second day they removed her leash,
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  Speaker 1: and she followed them willingly through the jungle. Nor ever
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  Speaker 1: did she seek to leave them, nor was happy unless
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: she was near one of the three. As the moment
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  Speaker 1: approached when the trail should break from the jungle on
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  Speaker 1: to the edge of the rolling plain where their home
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: had been, the three were filled with suppressed excitement, though
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  Speaker 1: none uttered a syllable of the hope and fear that
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: was in the heart of each. What would they find?
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: What could they find other than the same tangled mass
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: of vegetation that the ape man had cleared away to
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: build his home when he first came there with his bride.
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  Speaker 1: At last, they stepped from the concealing binjure of the
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: forest to look out across the plain, where in the
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: distance the outlines of the bungalow had once been clearly discernible,
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: nestled amidst the trees and shrubs that had been attained
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: or imported to beautify the grounds. Look, cried lady Jane.
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  Speaker 1: It is there, It is still there. But what are
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: those other things to the left beyond it, asked Korrak.
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  Speaker 1: They are the huts of natives, replied Tarzan. The fields
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: are being cultivated, exclaimed the woman. And some of the
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  Speaker 1: outbuildings have been rebuilt, said Tarzan. It can mean but
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: one thing. The Waziri have come back from the war,
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  Speaker 1: my faithful Waziri. They have restored what the hun destroyed
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  Speaker 1: and are watching over our home until we return. End
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  Speaker 1: of chapter