THE BURROWERS 



Respecting this opinion, but still feeling unconvinced, 

 we caught a wasp in a glass, and carrying it to an ant- 

 hill, inverted it so that she was confined just over the 

 entrance. After buzzing up and down for a moment, she 

 alighted and walked calmly into the hole ; but a fraction 

 of a second later she came rushing madly out again, 

 pursued by the most furious lot of ants that ever de- 

 fended the home city against invasion. Down tumbled 

 our air castles about courage and duty, for however 

 frigidus gets her queens, it is not in that way. We have 

 not yet seen the meeting and the capture, but hope that 

 sometime we may be lucky enough to be on the right 

 spot at the right time. 



