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that certain species of ants carry their devotion 

 so far as literally to cultivate the aphides, carrying 

 them bodily into their tunnels, where they are 

 placed in underground pens, reared and fed and 

 utilized in a manner which might well serve as a 

 pattern for the modern dairy farm. Indeed, after 

 all that we have already seen upon a single bram- 

 ble-bush, would it be taking too much license 

 with fact to add one more pictorial chronicle — an 

 exhilarated and promiscuous group of butterflies, 

 ants, hornets, wasps, and flies uniting in " a health 

 to the jolly aphis "? 



