ODOR, SENSE OF SMELL. DADDY LONGLEGS 63 



a film. Why, each joint in a feeler may detect a different 

 odor from any of the rest. But contact-odor makes the 

 best nose organ. You see, an ant's feeler contains a set of 

 specialized "noses." 



FLORENCE. No, I don't "see." 



ANT. You can sing the music scale. Out of the different 

 combinations of a few tones you get about all the music 

 and about all the sounds in the world. 



FLORENCE. Go on. 



ANT. Well, odors are arranged in scales too and can be 

 combined in thousands of ways to tell thousands of things 

 if you have good enough a nose. 



FLORENCE. I suppose you say "I smell" instead of 

 "I see." 



Ant. You can't see with your ears nor hear with your 

 eyes and the sense of smell is about dead in your nose. All 

 you need is to go blind and deaf and get a better nose to 

 find out much that you are now learning through your 

 eyes and ears. 



ALBERT. I don't quite see how your gases can be so 

 strong. 



ANT. Uncork a bottle of ammonia under your nose or 

 go to war, and you'll understand. 



KENNETH. How long might an ant be kept from 

 home and still be known by her sisters? 



CECIL. One book says a year or more. 



KENNETH. There must be a great deal of acid fumes 

 in a nest unless the ants kill them with another kind. 



CECIL. The moisture and minerals in the walls would 

 take it up. That's what hardens the walls. 



ALBERT. Of course the ants can smell the different 

 kinds of food much better than we can. 



KENNETH. A week ago I laid a little board on some 



