William P. Barron

Summary

William P. Barron,  Jungle Beasts (1923)

“ Protect me, O Man, and I will protect thee. Feed me, O Man, and I will feed thee. Love me, O Man, and I will love thee. Hate me, and I will hate thee. Slay me, and I will slay thee.
"We be brothers, O Man, thou and I, from life to life, from death to death, until Nirvana be won."
If I had only known then, and stayed my hand, I would not now be haunted by this yellow terror that peers out at me from the dark; that follows after me with softly padding feet; never nearer, never receding, until. . . .
Toi Wah was mated with another Tartar cat of high degree, and became the mother of a kitten.
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William P. Barron,  Jungle Beasts (1923)

“ And yet—perhaps nothing can be done. I have ceased to struggle. I have given up. Like the Oriental, I say, "Who can escape his fate?"
For I shall die by Chinese justice, a Buddhist revenge for killing the Tartar cat, Toi Wah. Toi Wah that I hated and feared, and have hated and feared through all the lives that the two of us have lived, far, far back to that time when the yellow sabre-toothed tiger seized my first-born and fled with him among the reeds and ferns of the Pale
ozoic marshes, a dainty morsel for her kitten.
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William P. Barron,  Jungle Beasts (1923)

“ Eyes that were full of suspicion and hate. Waiting, watching—for what? I did not know. I only feared.
Out of this fear grew many unreal terrors. I came to believe that Toi Wah was waiting a favorable chance to spring on me from behind, or when I was asleep, and to dig her great curved claws into my throat, tearing and rending it in her hate.
I became so possessed by this fear that I fashioned a leather collar for myself that fitted well up under my ears and around my neck.
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