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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: his expression altered to the urge of a newborn thought.
A slow, grim smile touched his lips. He looked down upon
the frightened, bleating kid, advertising, in its fear
and its innocence, its presence and its helplessness.
Dropping to the ground, Tarzan approached the trap and entered.
Without disturbing the fiber cord, which was adjusted to drop
the door at the proper time, he loosened the living bait,
tucked it under an arm and stepped out of the cage.
With his hunting knife he quieted the frightened animal,
severing its jugular; then he dragged it, bleeding,
along the trail down to the drinking hole, the half smile
The Jungle Tales of Tarzan |
