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derly community? Have we not high social instincts? Can 

 we not cross difficult places? Do we not help one another 

 in providing homes, food, nurses, defense? You know we 

 will give our lives to protect our homes. 



FLORENCE. Oh, I don't know. I've never seen you 

 do so yet. 



ANT. Do we not care for our young? Do we not forget 

 injuries and go to work as bravely as ever? Can't we 

 tell each other things? When we are doing one thing, 

 do we not see after everything else that needs attention? 



FLORENCE. Pinch me when you are done. 



ANT. Are we not hard workers? Are we not peaceable, 

 cleanly, and good housekeepers? Does each not work for 

 others first and self last ? Do foremen have to drive us to 

 work or see that we do it right? 



FLORENCE. Oh, hum ! 



ANT. Have we any need of jails and taxes? Do we not 

 mind our own business? Do we have to go to school to 

 learn how to live and be useful? 



FLORENCE. Remember that small brain. 



ANT. I have a large brain. Mine is many times as 

 large as that of a bug of my size. 



FLORENCE. Say, Ant, I'm just fooling. Let's be friends. 



ANT. All right, but don't start something the next time 

 you are around. 



Odor. Sense of Smell. Ammunition. Daddy Longlegs. 



ALBERT. "Odor" seems to be a big word with ants. 

 You must give off many odors and must be able to detect 

 many. 



ANT. We learn many things from odor more than you 

 can understand. Touch and odor together at the same 



