questionings were as strange as Sanskrit would have been. If
he asked Gunto what made it rain, the big old ape would but gaze at him
in dumb astonishment for an instant and then return to his interesting
and edifying search for fleas; and when he questioned Mumga, who was
very old and should have been very wise, but wasn't, as to the reason
for the closing of certain flowers after Kudu had deserted the sky, and
the opening of others during the night, he was surprised to discover
that Mumga had never noticed these interesting facts, though she could
tell to an inch just where the fattest grubworm should be hiding.

To Tarzan these things were wonders. They appealed to his intellect
and to his imagination. He saw the flowers close and open; he saw
certain blooms which turned their faces always toward the sun; he saw
leaves which moved when there was no breeze; he saw vines crawl like
living things up the boles and over the branches of great trees; and to
Tarzan of the Apes the flowers and the vines and the trees were living
creatures. He often talked to them, as he talked to Goro, the moon,
and Kudu, the sun, and always was he disappointed that they did not
reply. He asked them questions; but they could not answer, though he
knew that the whispering of the leaves was the language of the
leaves--they talked with one another.

The wind he attributed to the trees and grasses. He thought that they
swayed themselves to and fro, creating the wind. In no other way could
he account for this phenomenon. The rain he finally attributed to the
stars, the moon, and the sun; but his hypothesis was entirely unlovely
and unpoetical.

Tonight as Tarzan lay thinking, there sprang to his fertile imagination
an explanation of the stars and the moon. He became quite excited
about it. Taug was sleeping in a nearby crotch. Tarzan swung over
beside him.

"Taug!" he cried. Instantly the great bull was awake and bristling,
sensing danger from the nocturnal summons. "Look, Taug!" exclaimed
Tarzan, pointing toward the stars. "See the eyes of Numa and Sabor, of
Sheeta and Dango. They wait around Goro to leap in upon him for their
kill. See the eyes and the nose and the mouth of Goro. And the light
that shines upon his face is the light of the great fire he has built
to frighten away Numa and Sabor and Dango and Sheeta.

"All about him are the eyes, Taug, you can see them! But they do not
come very close to the fire--there are fe