262 ANTS AND CHILDREN OF THE GARDEN 



remove the stones, and it was a tight race. The Acrobats 

 generally won out. 



DOROTHY. I now see why that pile of stones is kept 

 by the door. 



ALBERT. The Garden ants are much the smaller and 

 can squeeze down the stairway even after it is plugged up. 

 Often they build a pyramid over the door to keep the 

 Acrobats out, but the builders always know where there is 

 a door at which they can enter. 



The Year Is Up, and the Ants Are Given a Feast. 



KENNETH. I gave our ants a T-bone that had a little 

 meat left on it. You see, the year is up, and I wanted to 

 give them a feast they wouldn't forget. Well, besides the 

 T-bone I gave them some cooked squash and some weak 

 alcohol. 



FLORENCE. Meat, squash and poison something of a 

 feast, I should say. 



KENNETH. A large number of ants at once stationed 

 themselves near the bone. They knew the smell of it 

 would bring many enemies, I guess. Then I had to leave. 



FLORENCE. Sorry. 



KENNETH. Three hours later I again appeared on the 

 scene nine o'clock at night with my flashlight. One 

 hundred ants were eating what little meat was left, three 

 hundred guards were stationed over the yard, twenty ants 

 were trying to cover r,p the bone with dirt, one was eat- 

 ing squash, many were drinking hard, but there was a 

 disturbance on the east side of the bone. 



FLORENCE. And what was the matter down on the 

 oast side ? 



KENNETH. About three hundred of our ants down 

 there were formed in a mass, standing side by side about 



