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time, and there was a panic. They couldn't get in and the 

 2,000 ants piled up an inch high. Albert won't tell how he 

 did this. 



CECIL. He simply blew his breath on them a little. 

 They knew they were running an awful risk to expose 

 their whole colony to some enemy at the same time, and so 

 were easily thrown into a panic. 



FLORENCE. The Carpenters would never run such 

 risks. 



Carpenters. 



DOROTHY. Well, look at that Carpenter Albert has 

 caught ! It's pumping balls of honey-dew from its craw 

 back between its jaws and the boy is actually eating them. 



ALBERT. Why, you eat honey, don't you, after the bees 

 have swallowed it? I'm playing Indian. 



DOROTHY. I saw a big Carpenter dying in a rose 

 bloom and a wounded bee lay helpless in another a few 

 inches away. Draw your own conclusion. 



CECIL. While the Carpenters always leave home one 

 at a time and travel alone, I have seen as many as fifty 

 come out of the house in a minute about dark. Once I 

 lifted a can lid about dusk, and twenty of them were 

 under it. 



FLORENCE. A few Carpenters ventured out of the 

 house today and some small chickens captured them. 



KENNETH. Within the last year I have seen a colony 

 of Carpenters carry home in daytime a dead sister, a sow 

 bug, two flies, a maggot and a chunk of dirt. Most of this 

 was for babies, no doubt, as they eat almost anything. 



ALBERT. One morning I found a dozen wounded Car- 

 penters on the garage floor. Many were helpless. Very 

 few could run and hide. I think their colony had been 



