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burden. After a moment's pause, in manifest surprise 

 and perplexity, she scurries across the pavement and 

 disappears within the gate. The next porter is not so 

 placid. She drops her seed, but, rising upon her hind 

 legs, stands rampant, with quivering antennae and wide- 



HORIZONTAL SECTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL ANT S NEST 



Arrangement of rooms and granaries shown. 



open jaws. This highway robbery goes on until a small 

 paper box is filled with plundered seeds. 



Now we must follow the outgoing column. Robbing 

 ants is easy, but this is hard work. One individual must 

 be chosen, marked, and followed as she pushes out along 

 the main road, turns into a narrow side trail, and at last 



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