RAIDS OF THE AMAZON ANTS 23 



course of the summer this relation wears rather 

 thin. One is tempted to recall the way in which 

 the servants carry their strayed mistresses home, 

 or the influence of evil communications seen in the 

 fierceness which sometimes infects the timid Brown 

 Ants, and leads them to share in the slave-making. 

 But our last note on this weird under-world 

 full of warning and caricature must be the sad 

 question whether these intrepid Amazons are 

 doomed in the course of evolution to the degenera- 

 tion which has beset other emmets who have played 

 with their independence. 



