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12 Tarzan Rescues the Moon
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THE MOON SHONE down out of a cloudless sky—a huge, swollen1 moon that seemed so close to earth that one might wonder that she did not brush the crooning tree tops. It was night, and Tarzan was abroad in the jungle—Tarzan, the ape-man; mighty2 fighter, mighty hunter. Why he swung through the dark shadows of the somber3 forest he could not have told you. It was not that he was hungry—he had fed well this day, and in a safe cache were the remains4 of his kill, ready against the coming of a new appetite. Perhaps it was the very joy of living that urged him from his arboreal5 couch to pit his muscles and his senses against the jungle night, and then, too, Tarzan always was goaded6 by an intense desire to know.
The jungle which is presided over by Kudu, the sun, is a very different jungle from that of Goro, the moon. The diurnal7 jungle has its own aspect—its own lights and shades, its own birds, its own blooms, its own beasts; its noises are the noises of the day. The lights and shades of the nocturnal jungle are as different as one might imagine the lights and shades of another world to differ from those of our world; its beasts, its blooms, and its birds are not those of the jungle of Kudu, the sun.
Because of these differences Tarzan loved to investigate the jungle by night. Not only was the life another life; but it was richer in numbers and in romance; it was richer in dangers, too, and to Tarzan of the Apes danger was the spice of life. And the noises of the jungle night—the roar of the lion, the scream of the leopard8, the hideous9 laughter of Dango, the hyena
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