204 WARS OF ANTS. 
of use to them as a language, give proofs 
of their affection for each other, and of 
devotedness for their colony, and take 
care of the females and their little ones. 
These are well-known traits of civiliza- 
tion ; and if ants were only of the size of 
beavers, we should think we could not 
sufficiently admire them. | 
third labourer, belonging to the Fallow Ants, had 
suffered no external injury. I am unacquainted 
with the cause of this malady ; the only one I have 
observed ants to be affected with. — A. 
