76 ANTS AND CHILDREN OP THE GARDEN 



destroyed, as they live in the ground and the nests are in 

 plain sight. You could destroy our colony in a minute. 



FLORENCE. There are about a dozen colonies of our 

 kind of ants within three blocks of us. Not very many, 

 as ants go. One of these enrolls 4,000 ants and has branch 

 colonies that pass back and forth. 



CECIL. A farmer can scarcely cross a field in many 

 parts of the country without putting his foot down on a 

 colony of meadow ants at every step. These ants own a 

 share in the field and he owns a share. But who ever 

 heard of an ant having any rights? I think both ants and 

 men have rights until they forfeit them. 



