THE CLEVER FAMILY OF ANTS 



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side of the tree, seeming, like most ants, to follow 

 a trail they could smell. I knew that a nest of 

 these in my tree could make a great deal of 

 trouble. 



Up about fifty feet we met a colony of small 

 ants coming and going, but they did nothing more 



Fig. 28. -42/eca aw/ nest. Plants grow on 

 the nests and tree trunks 



than tickle and annoy us. At eighty feet we 

 found their nest, hung from a branch like a 

 huge, blunt gray-paper icicle (Fig. 28). These 

 ants are paper makers and we have given them 

 the name Azteca because they live in the land 

 of the old Aztec Indians. 



They make their paper out of the tiniest > bits 

 of wood or plants, chewed well and glued together 



