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there was another pulling match. The body was again 

 taken away from the pall-bearer and carried in one door 

 but out another. At this point I lost track. So I don't 

 know what to think. 



ALBERT. Look at this chaff of 15,000 filaree seed that 

 has been gathered and hulled within the past six weeks. 

 And we don't know how much has blown away. 



DOROTHY. I wonder how our ants get along without 

 salt. 



CECIL. They don't need any. Some large animals can 

 live without salt. The Blond Eskimos of the Arctic region 

 have never seen many white men and never tasted salt. 

 They live on fish, meat, entrails of birds, stomachs of deer, 

 liver, berries and greenery of the short summer. I have 

 read that they are the healthiest people in the world. 



DOROTHY. Then the use of salt is mostly a habit. But 

 at this place the air carries some salt from the ocean. 



FLORENCE. I fed the Carpenters some fruit, but they 

 were quite shy. A few ate while a dozen kept running 

 round and round the fruit on guard, maybe. 



DOROTHY. A neighbor girl put a large berry into her 

 mouth and something bit her tongue. After the lone 

 Carpenter had captured her she captured it. 



ALBERT. I saw a pup catching and eating some Car- 

 penters. He was careful how he snapped them up. 



KENNETH. An ant came home after the door was 

 closed. I gave her a fly. She picked it up, ran back and 

 forth past the door until she knocked it down, and then 

 carried the fly inside. 



DOROTHY. Look at this fine white sand scattered all 

 over the yard. 



CECIL. That isn't sand. It's little balls of flour that 



