NATURE'H CRAFTSMEN 



AT PLAY IN THEIR PARK 



Young queens of the Agricultural ant romping on a pebble 



frame which had been placed over the colony was alive 

 with them. Upon removing this cover the excitement 

 greatly increased. Workers, red and black, mistresses 

 and slaves, came out in such vast numbers that they 

 literally covered the backs of the winged members — 

 pushing, pulling, carrying, hurrying them into the 

 underground passages, thus promptly deciding that their 

 wards were not yet ready for that outside world upon 

 whose unknown experiences the callow things seemed so 

 eager to rush. 



A few days thereafter virgin queens were seen now 

 and then wandering beyond bounds. But the attend- 



