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7 The End of Bukawai
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WHEN TARZAN OF the Apes was still but a boy he had learned, among other things, to fashion pliant1 ropes of fibrous jungle grass. Strong and tough were the ropes of Tarzan, the little Tarmangani. Tublat, his foster father, would have told you this much and more. Had you tempted2 him with a handful of fat caterpillars3 he even might have sufficiently4 unbended to narrate5 to you a few stories of the many indignities6 which Tarzan had heaped upon him by means of his hated rope; but then Tublat always worked himself into such a frightful7 rage when he devoted8 any considerable thought either to the rope or to Tarzan, that it might not have proved comfortable for you to have remained close enough to him to hear what he had to say.
So often had that snakelike noose9 settled unexpectedly over Tublat's head, so often had he been jerked ridiculously and painfully from his feet when he was least looking for such an occurrence, that there is little wonder he found scant10 space in his savage11 heart for love of his white-skinned foster child, or the inventions thereof. There had been other times, too, when Tublat had swung helplessly in midair, the noose tightening13 about his neck, death staring him in the face, and little Tarzan dancing upon a near-by limb,
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deluge
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