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Chapter IV When the Lion Fed
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Kudu, the sun, was well up in the heavens when Tarzan awoke. The ape-man stretched his giant limbs, ran his fingers through his thick hair, and swung lightly down to earth. Immediately he took up the trail he had come in search of, following it by scent2 down into a deep ravine. Cautiously he went now, for his nose told him that the quarry3 was close at hand, and presently from an overhanging bough4 he looked down upon Horta, the boar, and many of his kinsmen5. Un-slinging his bow and selecting an arrow, Tarzan fitted the shaft6 and, drawing it far back, took careful aim at the largest of the great pigs. In the ape-man's teeth were other arrows, and no sooner had the first one sped, than he had fitted and shot another bolt. Instantly the pigs were in turmoil7, not knowing from whence the danger threatened. They stood stupidly at first and then commenced milling around until six of their number lay dead or dying about them; then with a chorus of grunts8 and squeals9 they started off at a wild run, disappearing quickly in the dense10 underbrush.
Tarzan then descended12 from the tree, dispatched those that were not already dead and proceeded to skin the carcasses. As he worked, rapidly and with great skill, he neither hummed nor whistled as does the average man of civilization. It was in numerous little ways such as these that he differed from other men, due, probably, to his early jungle training. The beasts of the jungle that he had been reared among were playful to maturity
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