PREPARING FOR ANOTHER BATTLE 227 



Preparing for Another Battle. Clearing Grounds. 



CECIL. Do you know that I think our ants are fixing to 

 move again or are getting ready for another battle with 

 the Robbers? They are acting in a strange manner. 



FLORENCE. Yes. They have opened up a new door 

 through which they can escape with their babies, and they 

 won't carry in much of the melon seed I give them any 

 more. 



KENNETH. And they have quit harvesting. 



DOROTHY. And they don't clean up their yard like 

 they used to. 



FLORENCE. I do hope the Robbers won't come again. 

 It's a pity our ants can't have a home, a family, food, and 

 live in peace on account of those thieves and kidnappers. 



ALBERT. Ours are good workers, while theirs are bad 

 robbers. Of course, plodding Harvesters stand a poor show 

 when they "meet in battle those whose life training is a 

 preparation for butchery." 



ANT. Maybe this is as true of man as of ants. 



DOROTHY. Talk about trouble! Think of our ants at 

 the battle of the telephone pole! Sixty killed and others 

 driven from home; babies stolen and stored away to be 

 fattened and eaten ; many lost and staying out in the weeds 

 all night! It's enough to drive them mad. 



FLORENCE. How our ants hated to give up that home, 

 and kept going back to examine it! Once I saw one of 

 ours carry another one back to the old home, and at another 

 time I saw them carry sixteen from near the old home back 

 to the new. 



DOROTHY. At different times I saw a dozen or two 

 walking back and forth between the old home and the new. 



