steps. 
CHAPTER IV. 
THE ANTS :—CIVIL WAR-—-EXTERMINATION 
OF THE COMMUNITY. 
Ir is the tyrant’s punishment that he could not, 
even if he would, easily deliver his captive. So 
long as my nightingale sings, I know that he cares 
little for his cage, and I bear his captivity lightly ; 
but when the time of song has gone by, I share 
(ime melancholy, and the question again and again 
‘ 
recurs to my mind, “How can I release him ?” 
He no longer knows how to fly; in truth, is almost | 
without wings. If I set him free, he 
would perish before he had gone two 
The liberties which he takes at Paris in a large chamber, and 
here, at Fontainebleau, in a small garden, are, really, of but little im- 
portance. He does not profit by them; almost always remains con- 
