THEIR CITIES. 5 



6nd a much busier crowd. A large chamber, 

 with many winding passages running hither 

 and thither, and connecting with each other, 

 and with other passages underneath, has been 

 made, like the public square and the thronged 

 streets of an old fashioned city. It is not like 

 the exact, right-angled, stiff, modern town, but 

 the lanes turn in and out, and yet go on with 

 persevering directness towards some particular 

 spot which was not down in the original plan, 

 although a point of much consequence. Scat- 

 tered all along the thoroughfares of this stone- 

 canopied town, and quite plenty in the grand 

 square, are many long, round, white some- 

 things, a little like grains of wheat. People 

 have mistaken these things for the food of the 

 ants, and so have written, 



** The little ant, for one poor grain, 

 Doth tug, and toil, and strive." 



But the ants lay up no food. They need none; 

 for as soon as the hard frosts of autumn chill 

 them, they lie down to sleep till the spring 



