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details. It might be considered treasonable. I guess I 

 had better say nothing more about it, but go on and 

 present the problem that puzzles the entomologists, how 

 Strongvlognathus and Aner gates get slaves at all. They 

 are few in numbers, and StrojigylognatJius is hopelessly 

 outclassed as a fighter. It never by any chance slays an 

 enemy, and it displays a gift like that of a British army 



Fig. 37. The pavement ant ; a, winged female ; b, same, wingless ; c, male ; 

 d, worker ; e, larva of female ;/, head of the same ;^, pupa of same. 



officer for getting killed in engagements. The battles are 

 all won by the slaves, the creatures that have their nests 

 under brick sidewalks. They are regular Teddy Roose- 

 velts in war, but the misguided things fight against their 

 own countrymen with a glad heart. Then the Anergates 

 does not beget any workers or soldiers at all. They are 

 all males and females and no eggs, larvae, or pupae of the 

 pavement-ant slaves are ever found in their nests. Yet 

 they must have slaves, for they cannot feed themselves. 

 They cannot kidnap them, they are not able, and they 

 do not rear them. "What 's the secret of it? An early 

 answer will oblige many suburbanites who have diffi- 

 culty in securing cooks, nursery maids, and upstairs 

 girls. 



From these high-class ants that never do a lick of 

 work to those that prowl around, dwelling where they 



