The ape-man grinned and crossed quickly to the opposite side of the
street, for his delicate senses indicated that at this point the breeze stirring through the city
streets and deflected by the opposite wall would now blow from the lion toward him as the beast passed, whereas if he remained upon the side of the
street upon which he had been walking when he discovered the carnivore, his scent would have been borne to the nostrils of the animal, and Tarzan was sufficiently jungle-wise to realize that while he might deceive the eyes of man and beast he could not so easily disguise from the nostrils of one of the great cats that he was a creature of a different species from the inhabitants of the city, the only human beings, possibly, that Numa was familiar with.
The narrow
streets swarmed like a hive with men and women in strange Oriental costumes, and our small donkeys knocked them right and left as we plowed through them, urged on by the merciless donkey-boys.
And down in the crowded
streets, when that occurred, the readers of the New York papers were regaling themselves with wonderful and wonderfully illustrated accounts of such matters as:--
But the
streets were becoming blacker and more deserted every moment.
One day he and another gentleman took our cab; they stopped at a shop in R
Street, and while his friend went in he stood at the door.
When driving about, he felt that he was held liable by the police for anything that might occur in the
streets, and was the common prey of all energetic officials.
Through the
streets soldiers in various uniforms walked or ran confusedly in different directions like ants from a ruined ant-hill.
Well, gracious sakes, she has a nerve," he muttered as he went along the
street and passed a row of vacant lots where corn grew.
Across the
street and half a block down, high up in a building, I could see heads peering out.
Even the most degraded woman can walk our
streets unmolested, her sex and her weakness being her sufficient protection.
As the day crept on, still more unusual sights were witnessed in the
streets. The gates of the King's Bench and Fleet Prisons being opened at the usual hour, were found to have notices affixed to them, announcing that the rioters would come that night to burn them down.
My brother could not hear it for the traffic in the main thoroughfares, but by strik- ing through the quiet back
streets to the river he was able to distinguish it quite plainly.