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dragging several Acrobats, but all let loose except the 

 wounded one. This shows that the Acrobats didn't want to 

 kill ours. 



ALBERT. And when I tried to get our ants to help 

 loosen the jaws of that wounded Acrobat, they wouldn't, 

 and I had to pry them apart, 



DOROTHY. I never see the Acrobats carry any of their 

 sisters, dead or alive. 



KENNETH. I have. Twice I've seen an Acrobat carry 

 the dead body of a sister across the sidewalk, and I saw 

 that ant carry a crippled nest mate away from the door of 

 our ants. 



ALBERT. The Acrobats often enter the home of our 

 ants, but ours never return their visits. I dropped an- 

 other one of ours in at the Acrobat door, but she was 

 chased out by a dozen ants. 



DOROTHY. I spread some bits of paper with honey 

 and left them at the door of the Acrobats. Ten pieces were 

 carried in and the ants ate the honey on the other pieces. 



FLORENCE. I gave them some honey on paper, too. 

 Twelve ate at the first table, twenty at the second, forty 

 at the third, and seventy-five at the fourth. Time, five to 

 eight in the evening. 



ALBERT. I've seen two hundred of these Acrobats out 

 at a time. 



FLORENCE. The Acrobats must be hungry. I gave 

 them some squash seed and they ate it. 



Ants Don't Always Agree. 



KENNETH. A large stinging insect fell at your door. 

 Some of the ants fought it, others tried to drag it away, 

 and some tried to take it indoors. 



ANT. Neither ants nor men can always agree. 



KENNETH. Two of your ants were slowly dragging 



