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May it not be that the parents, finding all efforts to restore 

 their young to freedom ineffectual, sought this method of 

 saving them from a life to which death must assuredly be 

 preferable? Instances of like character might be adduced 

 by the hundred, but enough has been written to show that, 

 in the case of Formica flava, an unwillingness to allow the 

 humblest of the colony to be taken into bondage was the 

 motive which prompted the sacrifice. 



