156 ANTS AND CHILDREN OF THE GARDEN 



CECIL. They left no guests except a hundred small 

 white mites that lived in tiny hallways that pierced a two- 

 inch pillar located between G and K. I suppose these 

 white mites were the ants' ghosts. 



KENNETH. This nest was located in a hardpan knoll 

 at the crossing of two earth cracks that had become filled 

 with gravel and dirt. 



CECIL. The hardpan below was yet damp enough to 

 be pressed into balls, although there has been no rain to 

 speak of since last spring. 



Photograph of One of the Rooms Showing Hardened Walls. 

 A piece is broken out on one side. 



ALBERT. How is it your diagram figures only about 

 a half gallon of dirt removed, and yet we know there was 

 a gallon? 



FLORENCE. I suppose I omitted some of the apart- 

 ments and maybe you didn't allow enough for hallways. 

 You know this was largely hardpan, and I don't suppose 

 the dirt was as solidly packed in your bucket as it was 

 before it was mined. 



