Two or three might lie cuddled in each other's arms for additional warmth if the night were chill, and thus Tarzan had slept in Kala's arms nightly for all these years.
? ? ? ? That the huge, fierce brute loved this child of another race is beyond question, and he, too, gave to the great, hairy beast all the affection that would have belonged to his fair young mother had she lived.
? ? ? ? When he was disobedient she cuffed him, it is true, but she was never cruel to him, and was more often caressing him than chastising him.
? ? ? ? Tublat, her mate, always hated Tarzan, and on several occasions had come near ending his youthful career.
? ? ? ? Tarzan on his part never lost an opportunity to show that he fully reciprocated his foster father's sentiments, and whenever he could safely annoy him or make faces at him or hurl insults upon him from the safety of his mother's arms, or the slender branches of the higher trees, he did so.
? ? ? ? His superior intelligence and cunning permitted him to invent a thousand diabolical tricks to add to the burdens of Tublat's life.
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