CONTENTS. 



Page 



Preface : iii 



Acknowledgments v 



Contents vii 



Frontispiece x 



CHAPTEE I. 



Getting acquainted 11 



Ants easily excited 12 



Ants know their nest mates 13 



Carry nest mates around 14 



Guests. Food 15 



Parasites 17 



Harvesting 18 



Cleanliness 19 



Slaves 22 



Partnership 23 



Mushrooms 23 



Eggs. Babies 24 



Pupae 26 



CHAPTER II. 



Florence and Ant 28 



Ants and cows 30 



Crossing streams. Driver ants. Clusters of ants 31 



Honey ants 32 



Play 35 



Head. Jaws. Teeth. (Illustrated) 36 



Feelers 41 



How ants scattered over world 42 



Garden ants 42 



CHAPTER III. 



Big ant Carpenter 44 



Music box. Winged instrument. Stringed instrument. (Illust.) . 49 



Craw. Gizzard. Hair 52 



Eyes 55 



How to tell ants from other insects 56 



Name of our ant 56 



Mr. Wheeler 's letter to the children 57 



Experiment, Kenneth 's 58 



CHAPTER IV. 



Florence and ant 60 



Odor. Sense of smell. Ammunition. Daddy Longlegs 61 



