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repeated this four or five times. Then it picked up the pointed stick
and placed it at a cocky angle under
its arm and left the woods for the highway. No gorilla anywhere,
Africa or California or New York, was
happier than he.
A man and woman sitting close together on a rock just off the
highway were looking across an open
stretch of valley at a view of the city in the distance and they didn’t
see the shaggy figure approaching.
The smokestacks and square tops of buildings made a black uneven
wall against the lighter sky and here
and there a steeple cut a sharp wedge out of a cloud. The young man
turned his neck just in time to see
the gorilla standing a few feet away, hideous and black, with its hand
extended. He eased his arm from
around the woman and disappeared silently into the woods. She, as
soon as she turned her eyes, fled
screaming down the highway. The gorilla stood as though surprised
and presently its arm fell to its side.
It sat down on the rock where they had been sitting and stared over
the valley at the uneven skyline of
the city.