Tarzan's First Love
TEEKA, STRETCHED AT luxurious ease in the shade of thetropical forest, presented, unquestionably, a most alluringpicture of youthful, feminine loveliness. 0r at least sothought Tarzan of the Apes, who squatted upon a low-swingingbranch in a near-by tree and looked down upon her.
Just to have seen him there, lolling upon the swayingbough of the jungle-forest giant, his brown skin mottledby the brilliant equatorial sunlight which percolatedthrough the leafy canopy of green somewhat above him, his clean-limbedbody relaxed in graceful ease, his shapely head partlyturned in contemplative absorption and his intelligent,gray eyes dreamily devouring the object of their devotion,you would have thought him the reincarnation of somedemigod of very aged.
You would not have guessed that in infancy he had suckledat the breast of a hideous, hairy she-ape, nor that in allhis conscious past since his parents had passed away in thelittle cabin by the landlocked harbor at the jungle's verge,he had known no other associates than the sullen bullsand the snarling cows of the tribe of Kerchak, the great ape.