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hide in just over the dirt ridge you built around your door. 

 Then it poked its nose over the top at two o'clock and 

 waited for your ants to come out at three. 



KENNETH. And two feet from little Horny I found one 

 undigested pellet that included thirty heads of your ants, 

 and another thirty-five. These pellets were larger than the 

 ones we found the other day. 



ANT. What 11 we do? 



FLORENCE. Stay in the house when he is around. If 

 we find him we'll carry him so far away he'll never get 

 back. 



ALBERT. Say, Ant, you have a great many things to 

 do and a great many dangers to meet, don't you? Your 

 work, trials, dangers, accidents and so on require that you 

 be wise and keep busy. 



FLORENCE. Well, another day is here with another 

 bad report. I counted six' horny toad pits in the soft dirt 

 over the ridge on your yard. But we counted 950 ants on 

 the trail, so you haven't all been swallowed yet. If Horny 

 doesn't get indigestion you'll not have to make your house 

 any larger, will you? 



DOROTHY. People that are bothered with the Argen- 

 tine ant ought to import horny toads, each to eat 240 of 

 these little ants at a meal. 



ALBERT. Too much bother for Horny to catch that 

 many ants. Anyhow, that ant has too much ammunition 

 to suit him, maybe. 



ANT. Did you ever see the horned toad catch any of 

 our ants? 



DOROTHY. No, but I think I know how he does it. He 

 gets on the soft earth pellets just over the ridge of your 

 yard, wriggles around until a little pit is made for him 

 to lie in, places his mouth at the rim of the little pit he is 



