10 LIFE IN THE INSECT WORLD. 



than twenty-four days before we shall see green 

 fields and sweet flowers again. 



Mary. Oh, I was not thinking of fields and 

 flowers just now. 



rfunt M. What then ? 



Mary. Little Jane Wilson has been talking 

 to Anna and me about the ants, and says she is 

 very fond of watching them at their work ; and 

 has told us some things which seem so strange, 

 I could hardly have believed them, only I know 

 she is a very good little girl, and would not say 

 any thing that is not quite true. 



Jane says they will not begin to work again 

 until warm weather comes, and then we are 

 going to watch them together, clearing out their 

 little houses under ground, and carrying up one 

 grain of sand at a time, and throwing it on the 

 heap around their holes. 



Jlnna. Jane told us she had sometimes seen 

 an ant trying to drag a dead fly towards its nest, 

 but 'finding it too heavy, it went back and 

 brought a number of its friends to help it. She 

 says she is sure insects talk to each other, 



Jiunt M. I think there can be no doubt that 

 all animals have a way of communicating with 



