A GUILD OF CARPENTER ANTS 



appeal from one of the academy officials to hasten 

 thither. My big momitl was full of live ants, and hun- 

 dreds of them were thronging the hill, and many had 

 broken boimds and were pouring out upon the floor! 



There hatl not been a sign of life in the hill when it 

 was put up. But the warmth of the museum had 

 gradually thawed it out, and therewith a horde of 

 hibernating ants within. Naturally, as they woke up 

 they looked about them, ant-fashion, to find something 

 to do in their line of life. I had inferred that all the 



CARPENTER ANTS REMOVING THE WUUD PELLETS CUT FROM A TREE 



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