Jungle Tales of Tarzan

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CHAPTER I
Tarzan’s First Love

Teeka, stretched at luxurious ease in the shade of the tropical forest,presented, unquestionably, a most alluring picture of young, feminineloveliness. Or at least so thought Tarzan of the Apes, who squatted upon alow-swinging branch in a near-by tree and looked down upon her.

Just to have seen him there, lolling upon the swaying bough of thejungle-forest giant, his brown skin mottled by the brilliant equatorialsunlight which percolated through the leafy canopy of green above him, hisclean-limbed body relaxed in graceful ease, his shapely head partly turned incontemplative absorption and his intelligent, gray eyes dreamily devouring theobject of their devotion, you would have thought him the reincarnation of somedemigod of old.

You would not have guessed that in infancy he had suckled at the breast of ahideous, hairy she-ape, nor that in all his conscious past since his parentshad passed away in the little cabin by the landlocked harbor at the jungle’sverge, he had known no other associates than the sullen bulls and the snarlingcows of the tribe of Kerchak, the great ape.

Nor, could you have read the thoughts which passed through that active, healthybrain, the longings and desires and aspirations which the sight of Teekainspired, would you have been any more inclined to give credence to the realityof the origin of the ape-man. For, from his thoughts alone, you could neverhave gleaned the truth—that he had been born to a gentle English lady or thathis sire had been an English nobleman of time-honored lineage.

Lost to Tarzan of the Apes was the truth of his origin. That he was JohnClayton, Lord Greystoke, with a seat in the House of Lords, he did not know,nor, knowing, would have understood.

Yes, Teeka was indeed beautiful!

Of course Kala had been beautiful—one’s mother is always that—but Teeka wasbeautiful in a way all her own, an indescribable sort of way which Tarzan wasjust beginning to sense in a rather vague and hazy manner.

For years had Tarzan and Teeka been play-fellows, and Teeka still continued tobe playful while the young bulls of her own age were rapidly becoming surly andmorose. Tarzan, if he gave

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