the jungle folk, if they be dissatisfied among their own people,

they bothered her no more, for Kala was a fine clean-limbed

young female, and they did not wish to lose her.

As Tarzan grew he made more rapid strides, so that by the

time he was ten years old he was an excellent climber, and on

the ground could do many wonderful things which were beyond

the powers of his little brothers and sisters.

In many ways did he differ from them, and they often

marveled at his superior cunning, but in strength and size he

was deficient; for at ten the great anthropoids were fully

grown, some of them towering over six feet in height, while

little Tarzan was still but a half-grown boy.

Yet such a boy!

From early childhood he had used his hands to swing from

branch to branch after the manner of his giant mother, and

as he grew older he spent hour upon hour daily speeding

through the tree tops with his brothers and sisters.

He could spring twenty feet across space at the dizzy

heights of the forest top, and grasp with unerring precision,

and without apparent jar, a limb waving wildly in the path of

an approaching tornado.

He could drop twenty feet at a stretch from limb to limb

in rapid descent to the ground, or he could gain the utmost

pinnacle of the loftiest tropical giant with the ease and

swiftness of a squirrel.

Though but ten years old he was fully as strong as the

average man of thirty, and far more agile than the most

practiced athlete ever becomes. And day by day his strength

was increasing.

His life among these fierce apes had been happy; for his

recollection held no other life, nor did he know that there

existed within the universe aught else than his little forest

and the wild jungle animals with which he was familiar.

He was nearly ten before he commenced to realize that a

great difference existed between himself and his fellows. His