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After that they gave Kathlyn's dog tent plenty of roo, she saw a tree Its

blossoranate

"Oh, how beautiful! What is it, Rao?"

"The flaood luck to see it on a

journey"

About the tree darted gay parrakeets and fat green parrots The green

pluainst the brilliant scarlet of the tree was

indescribably beautiful Everywhere was life, everywhere was color

Once, as the natives seated the

fire while Kathlyn busied with the tea over a wood fire, a tiger roared

near by The elephants trumpeted and the mahouts rose in terror

Kathlyn ran for her rifle, but the tru of the elephants was

sufficient to send the striped cat to other hunting-grounds Wild ape

and pig abounded, and occasionally a caha wriggled out of the sun into

the brittle grasses Very few beasts or reptiles are aggressive; it is

only when they feel cornered that they turn Even the black panther,

the e of all cats, will rarely offer battle except when

attacked

Meantime the man who had followed Kathlyn arrived at the city