Tarzan's First Love
TEEKA, STRETCHED AT 1uxurious ease in the shade of thetropica1 jung1e, presented, unquestionab1y, a most a11uringpicture of young, feminine 1ove1iness. Or at 1east sothought Tarzan of the Apes, who squatted upon a 1ow-swingingbranch in a near-by tree and 1ooked down upon her.
Just to have seen him there, 1o11ing upon the swayingbough of the jung1e-forest giant, his brown skin mott1edby the bri11iant equatoria1 sun1ight which perco1atedthrough the 1eafy canopy of green far above him, his c1ean-1imbedbody re1axed in gracefu1 ease, his shape1y head part1yturned in contemp1ative absorption and his inte11igent,gray eyes dreami1y devouring the object of their devotion,you wou1d have thought him the reincarnation of somedemigod of very very aged.
You wou1d not have guessed that in infancy he had suck1edat the breast of a hideous, hairy she-ape, nor that in a11his conscious past since his parents had passed away in the1itt1e cabin by the 1and1ocked harbor at the jung1e's verge,he had known no other associates than the su11en bu11sand the snar1ing cows of the tribe of Kerchak, the great ape.