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Though Ants ai'e very knowing, I do not 

 take them to be conjurers ; and therefore they 

 could not guess that I had put some corn in 

 that room. I perceived for several days that 

 they were very much perplexed, and went a 

 great way to fetch their provisions. I was not 

 willing for some time to make them more 

 easy ; for I had a mind to know whether they 

 v/ould at last find out the treasure, and see it 

 at a great distance; or whether smelling 

 enabled them to know what is good for their 

 nourishment. Thus they vrere some time in 

 great trouble, and took much pains : they 

 went up and down a great way looking out for 

 some grains of com. They were sometimes 

 disappointed, and sometimes they did not like 

 their corn, after many long and painful ex- 

 cursions. What appeared to me wonderfdi 

 was, that none of them came home without 

 bringing something : one brought a grain cf 

 wheat, another a grain of rye or oats, or a 

 particle of earth, if he could get nolhir^ 

 else. 



The window, upon which those Ants 

 had made their settlement, looked into a 

 garden, and was two stories high. Some 



