CARRYING THINGS. TRAILS 95 



CECIL. I saw one of our ants carrying out a dead one, 

 and the dead one was carrying a live one. It was like 

 this: For some reason, the dead ant clasped a live one by 

 the pedicel. Then a third ant picked up the dead one, and 

 thus carried both away at once. 



FLORENCE. You'll have to diagram that story if you 

 want it understood. 



CECIL. When I loosened the jaws of the carrier, the 

 other live ant went back home, but with the dead one still 

 hanging on. Then I loosened the jaws of the dead one, 

 and the live one again went home, to be carried away by a 

 fourth ant. 



FLORENCE. The other one, the live one, the dead 

 one, the live one, the other one, the dead one ! 



DOROTHY. I saw you dragging a lot of charcoal home 

 sixteen feet today. Are you going to have a minstrel show, 

 or do you have to carry something so you can get by the 

 guards ? 



ANT. Why does your druggist keep charcoal to sell? 

 Anyhow, our workers found it near the fruit parings, and 

 maybe it had some dried juice on it. 



ALBERT. Day or night I can generally find from one 

 to six of your ants on the tiny posts we drove on your 

 yard. 



ANT. In most cases these ants have been ordered or 

 carried away from home. 



FLORENCE. Why don't you climb the two weeds on 

 your yard like you do the little posts? 



ANT. Because they have grown bristly, sticky hairs on 

 the stalks to keep us from bothering the seeds on top. But 

 sometimes I climb from leaf to leaf to see how the seeds 

 are coming on. 



DOROTHY. One of ours carried out a young dead white 



