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? ? ? ? Freed from their retreats Akut and the boy came to the ground, to take up their interrupted journey once more. The old ape scolded the lad for his carelessness.

? ? ? ? "Had you not been so intent upon the lion behind you you might have discovered the lioness much sooner than you did,"

? ? ? ? "But you passed right by her without seeing her," retorted the boy.

? ? ? ? Akut was chagrined.

? ? ? ? "It is thus," he said, "that jungle folk die. We go cautiously for a lifetime, and then, just for an instant, we forget, and--" he ground his teeth in mimicry of the crunching of great jaws in flesh. "It is a lesson," he resumed. "You have learned that you may not for too long keep your eyes and your ears and your nose all bent in the same direction."

? ? ? ? That night the son of Tarzan was colder than he ever had been in all his life. The pajama trousers had not been heavy; but they had been much heavier than nothing. And the next day he roasted in the hot sun, for again their way led much across wide and treeless plains.


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