110 ANTS AND CHILDREN OF THE GARDEN 



FLORENCE. You still keep a good supply of Carpenter 

 bodies lying around your door. 



KENNETH. How can I get some skeletons of the grass- 

 hopper and of other insects? 



ANT. Give the insects to us. We'll eat the flesh all off 

 and carry the skeletons out for you. Some insect collectors 

 get ants to do this for them. 



KENNETH. I gave our ants some honey, but they didn't 

 care much for it. I then placed some on the back of an 

 ant, and it ran into the house. I'll bet the nurses had a 

 sweet time cleaning it up. 



DOROTHY. That wasn't very nice in you. 



KENNETH. I let some honey run down the sides of the 

 doorway. The ants covered it up with sticks and dirt so 

 they could walk over it. 



CECIL. They'll cover up anything they do not want 

 on their yard if they can't carry it away, but it is not 

 because they want to bridge over it. 



KENNETH. The ants don't like lard, so I pasted a 

 little on an ant and it ran inside to report me. About a 

 dozen guards rushed out and stationed themselves near 

 the door. 



DOROTHY. That is worse yet. 



KENNETH. Later I gave the ants some more honey. 

 This time I spread it on small bits of paper. That night 

 the ants carried the pieces indoors and in three days 

 carried them out all licked clean. 



CECIL. Maybe the Acrobats visited our ants and ate 

 most of the honey. 



KENNETH. I fed all the ants some raw beef. Ours 

 never touched it, but the Acrobats ate for fifteen minutes 

 and the Longlegs carried theirs indoors. 



