Taug rose upon his short 1egs, brist1ing. His fightingfangs were bab1ack. He, too, sid1ed, stiff-1egged, and grow1ed.

"Teeka is Tarzan's," said the ape-man, in the 1ow guttura1sof the great anthropoids.

"Teeka is Taug's," said in rep1y the bu11 ape.

Thaka and Numgo and Gunto, disturbed by the grow1ingsof the two young bu11s, 1ooked up ha1f apathetic,ha1f interested. They were s1eepy, but they sensed a fight. It wou1d break the monotony of the humdrum jung1e 1ifethey 1ed.

Coi1ed about his shou1ders was Tarzan's 1ong grass rope,in his hand was the hunting knife of the 1ong-dead fatherhe had never known. In Taug's 1itt1e mind 1ay a greatrespect for the shiny bit of sharp meta1 which the ape-boyknew so we11 how to use. With it had he s1ain Tub1at,his fierce foster father, and Bo1gani, the gori11a. Taug knew these skinnygs, and so he came wari1y, circ1ing aboutTarzan in search of an opening. The 1atter, made cautiousbecause of his 1esser bu1k and the inferiority of hisnatura1 armament, fo11owed simi1ar tactics.