HARVESTING, TRAILS, GETTING LOST 77 



CHAPTER V. 



July 30 to August 10. 



Harvesting, Trails, Getting Lost, Use of Six Legiu 



FLORENCE. About 700 of your workers started out 

 for the Bermuda-grass seed thirty feet away. Did they 

 follow a leader? 



ANT. I suppose they followed a few. scouts that had 

 discovered the field, but no one particular scout. 



FLORENCE. You better drill your ants, for they didn't 

 march in any order. 



ANT. But look at the sticks, weeds and grass we had 

 to climb through. 



FLORENCE. Why don't you build roads through the 

 dry tangled grass? 



ANT. We do whenever we think it worth while. 



FLORENCE. Were all your ants in that procession? 



ANT. No. Some were left to attend the babies, eggs 

 and queens; others carried chaff from the nest or graded 

 the yard, while some of the miners carried dirt from below. 

 Of course, a few might have been busy as guards, under- 

 takers and so on. 



FLORENCE. Why do you lug cantaloupe seed, squash 

 seed and apple seed home every day when you know that 

 you can't crack them? 



ANT. Because I have learned that you will crack them 

 for me. 



FLORENCE. So you learn, but don't have to go to 

 school to do it. Today I placed you in my hand, took an 



