Project Gutenberg 2025-07-01 Public domain in the USA. 152 Scoville, Samuel 1872 1950 Nyman, Väinö 1880 1947 Nyman, Vaino Man and beast. Finnish Ihinen ja peto $aHelsinki :$bKust.Oy Kirja, $c1929. Punainen Rooi -- Kolme, jotka kohtasivat toisensa jälleen -- Hunajaa -- Karsikkopuu -- Timarti -- Babirussa -- Khambu -- Lodi -- Vuoriston pahahenki -- Pelkuri -- Maanalainen -- Surma -- Valkoinen tiikeri. Juhani Kärkkäinen and Tapio Riikonen Ihinen ja peto by Samuel Scoville is a collection of animal adventure stories written in the early 20th century. Set largely in southern Africa, it blends vivid natural-history detail with fast-paced, often perilous encounters between predators, prey, and people. The tales spotlight cunning, survival, and the uneasy ties between the wild and the human world, featuring memorable figures like a bold jackal and a devoted baboon alongside frontier railwaymen and hunters. The opening of the work first follows Punainen Rooi, a red-backed jackal who kills a deadly viper, feeds and trains his litter, escapes a hunters’ raid with a clever earth-burrow trick, and graduates from small antelope hunts to shadowing a black-maned lion for scraps—outwitting the big cat until he astonishingly slays a massive rock python with a precise neck bite, winning a wary female’s respect. The narrative then shifts to a frame told by Red Swope, who recounts a vast troop of baboons braving a flood; he rescues an abandoned infant, Jok, which an amputee stationman, Jim Tully, raises and trains to run signals and chores with uncanny skill and strength. After defending Jim and becoming his constant companion, Jok vanishes into the bush carrying Jim’s body when the old man dies suddenly, leaving the new stationmaster sensing the unseen presence around the siding. The section closes with the station bracing for a late-night special, the atmosphere tense and expectant. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 20240603090643scovillejr 1929 FI Reading ease score: 36.1 (College-level). Difficult to read. fi Animals -- Anecdotes QL Text Category: Short Stories Category: Adventure Category: American Literature 441962 2025-07-30T08:07:18.293482 text/html 234390 2025-07-30T08:07:25.908398 application/epub+zip 241146 2025-07-30T08:07:21.311421 application/epub+zip 226452 2025-07-30T08:07:20.058515 application/epub+zip 422125 2025-07-30T08:07:29.379393 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 399337 2025-07-30T08:07:25.090438 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 416994 2025-07-30T08:07:17.922487 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 397257 2025-07-01T13:28:21 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 13785 2025-07-30T08:07:29.520403 application/rdf+xml 13037 2025-07-30T08:07:20.651446 image/jpeg 3514 2025-07-30T08:07:20.346435 image/jpeg 233568 2025-07-30T08:07:18.332463 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia fi.wikipedia