CLEANLINESS 19 



close the door with it at once. We try to use good sense 

 and not waste time. 



CECIL. What do you do when loads are too heavy? 



ANT. The same as you. Get others to help. 



CECIL. I see that ants don't always agree. One may 

 pull toward the door and another away from it. One may 

 carry an object into the house and another bring it out. 



ALBERT. Do they ever fight about it? 



CECIL. Hardly ever. 



ALBERT. I saw an ant carrying a pole an inch long 

 with another ant riding on it. Then the straw was up- 

 ended, but the rider still hung on. 



CECIL. Neither ant may have known of the other. 

 Often, when you think one is riding, it is walking on the 

 ground with its hind feet and helping lift the load with 

 the others. One often pushes a load while another pulls. 

 Ants that seem to be working against each other often are 

 trying to do the same thing. 



KENNETH. In taking heavy loads away from the door, 

 the ants often climb the hard, steep wall instead of passing 

 out over the gentle slope of soft earth pellets on other 

 sides. I think I see why better foot hold. 



Cleanliness. 



ALBERT. I have noticed that each evening about two 

 hundred of you get out on the ring of earth pellets that 

 are piled around your door, and walk around. In this 

 way you knock the bumps off the high places into the low 

 and grade your yard nicely. You dump the earth into low 

 places when you bring it out, also. 



ANT. Yes, but I wish you children wouldn't muss up 

 our grading every day. 



