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awful time trying to chase these insects away. By the way, 

 I saw one Carpenter feed another one again. 



KENNETH. Several Acrobats were getting the best of 

 a big Carpenter. I picked up the whole fighting bunch 

 and dropped it at the door of our ants. A thousand of 

 ours rushed out of the house and piled upon the fighters. 

 I then drove ours away and laid the fighting bunch at the 

 Carpenter's own door. 



ALBERT. I saw you. Forty Carpenters, one by one, 

 examined into the sad fate of their sister, but offered no 

 help. Finally, one small, lank sister came along and tried 

 to pull an Acrobat loose, but couldn't. She then doubled 

 her abdomen under her body, and shot the enemy four 

 times, but its jaws still held on. Finally, the Acrobat was 

 pulled in two, but still the jaws held their grip. 



KENNETH. By this time two other Carpenters had been 

 gassed and knocked out, and the captured Carpenter was 

 crushing the head of one of the enemy. 



ALBERT. What are you at now? 



FLORENCE. I'm bathing the feet of this Carpenter in 

 alcohol. Poor thing. She got stuck in some pinewax on 

 the cedar tree. See? She can run now, and I must take 

 her home. 



ALBERT. Alcohol ! 



FLORENCE. That wouldn't hurt her. 



ALBERT. The cows were having another shooting 

 match today. I suppose their bodies would be smeared 

 with sticky honey if they didn't shoot it away. When a ball 

 lodges on the cows they kick it away play football with 

 it. Sometimes a cow stands on her head when she fires. 



KENNETH. The largest group on that tree now num- 

 bers 500 cows. A herd moves whenever it wants to. Gen- 

 erally they live about a foot from the end of the twigs, 



