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Presents
From the Ron De Laat Collection
A Fort Wayne Daily News 1913 Newspaper Serialization of

Art by G. Busche
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PROLOGUE
Not like any other story you ever read before is Tarzan of the Apes. "While you are reading it you would like to pause to ask yourself  "Is it possible?" but you can't, because the story is so fascinating that pausing is impossible. It's a yarn of the you-can't-stop-until-you-finish-it kind. It may have happened in the wilds of Africa just as the author relates it, or it may not -- we do not know whether or not he had a basis of fact for his story -- but you are not a scientist while you are reading it

 You are just an ordinary human being, with a love for a story that is absorbing in its interest and swiftness.

CHAPTER I: In the Wilds

"I had this story from one who had no business to tell it to me or to any other. I may credit the seductive influence of an old vintage upon the narrator for the beginniug of it and my own skeptical incredulity during the days that followed for the balance of the strange tale. . . . "
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The sight that met his eyes must have frozen him with horror. .And then, with an awful scream he sprang.
January 9, 1913
In the middle of the floor lay a skeleton.
January 10, 1913
With a roar he leaped upon the little Lord Greystoke. .With a bound the black leaped entirely over the rushing beast.
January 11, 1913
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It was a thoroughly awed and frightened group of savages.
January 12, 1913
Loud through the forest rang the fierce wild cry. .    .Turning and twisting in the air came the dead body.
January 13, 1913
Her first view of the interior brought a shriek of terror.
January 15, 1913
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January 16, 1913
Good evening, sir, said the professor.
January 17, 1913
She was writing on Tarzan's own table beneath the window.
January 18, 1913
One piercing scream escaped her lips.
January 19, 1913
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There stood Tarzan, his arms filled with luscious fruit.
January 20, 1913
In an instant they were in a hand to hand fight.
January 22, 1913
He is only a beast of the jungle, Miss Porter.
January 23, 1913
No, I shall not go, nor should you.
January 24, 1913
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For days they travelled.
January 26, 1913
Do finger prints show racial characteristics?Suddenly she felt a great arm about her.
January 27, 1913 (p. 8)
She sprang forward to plead with the ape man.
January 27, 1913
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. . . "If it's any of my business how did you ever get into that jungle?"

"I don't know," said Tarzan quietly "I was born there. 
My mother was an ape, and, of course, she couldn't tell me anything about it.
I never knew who my father was.

The End
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Fred J. Arting McClurg: Tarzan of the Apes - title page silhouette
Tarzan of the Apes ~ A.C. McClurg Edition
First Appearance in Hard Cover
BIBLIO & COVERS
All-Story October 1912 - Tarzan of the Apes
All-Story Pulp Magazine
First Appearance
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