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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Jungle Tales of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: creature of the wilds and all the quiet dignity that was
his birthright.
Numa halted as he saw the man standing at the very spot
where the king would drink. His jaws were parted, and his
cruel eyes gleamed. He growled and advanced slowly.
The man growled, too, backing slowly to one side,
and watching, not the lion's face, but its tail.
Should that commence to move from side to side in quick,
nervous jerks, it would be well to be upon the alert,
and should it rise suddenly erect, straight and stiff,
then one might prepare to fight or flee; but it did neither,
The Jungle Tales of Tarzan |
