midday
And her beetling brows , and broad , flat nose , and her mouth ! Tarzan had often practiced making his mouth into a little round circle and then puffing out his cheeks while he winked his eyes rapidly ; but he felt that he could never do it in the same cute and irresistible way in which Teeka did it . And as he watched her that afternoon , and wondered , a young bull ape who had been lazily foraging for food beneath the damp , matted carpet of decaying vegetation at the roots of a near-by tree lumbered awkwardly in Teeka 's direction . The other apes of the tribe of Kerchak moved listlessly about or lolled restfully in the midday heat of the equatorial jungle . From time to time one or another of them had passed close to Teeka , and Tarzan had been uninterested . Why was it then that his brows contracted and his muscles tensed as he saw Taug pause beside the young she and then squat down close to her ? Tarzan always had liked Taug .