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thing you said. You see we can learn and you can't 

 that's the difference. 



ANT. I can learn can improve a little. 



FLORENCE. You should learn to trade and to use 

 money. Then you could sell some of your grain and buy 

 clothes, purchase fancy food, hire a trap-door spider to 

 build your house with a real door, buy more acid to fight 

 with. You could get . a blacksmith to nail iron claws on 

 your feet when yours wear out, and put iron teeth on your 

 jaws for mining. Oh, you could do a lot of things. 



ANT. Aren't we lucky not to need money? Does man 

 ever worry because he hasn't enough? We don't. Why 

 wear so many clothes when you don't need them ? Why not 

 build your own house? And haven't we enough to eat? 



FLORENCE. Well, you'll never be smart until you 

 learn to trade and to use money. 



ANT. You see that man is such a new animal the last 

 one that was made we are afraid to adopt his ways. It 

 took us millions of years to learn ours. Wait a couple of 

 million years and see how you stand then. "Go to the 

 ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise." 



The Horned Toad. 



KENNETH. I placed a small horned toad near your 

 door and he played "'possum" until an ant clasped his soft 

 throat. He then scampered away with the ant still holding 

 on and several others running over his back. 



ANT. He generally tries to keep his throat hidden from 

 our jaws. 



KENNETH. When out in the mountains I saw the big 

 red ants dragging a small horned toad into their nest. 



CECIL. Lately I've seen some little undigested cylinders 



