A HAPPY FINALE. 



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" I am not going at all," said Emily. 



Here she put in ours her little white hand, and looked up 

 archly in our face, " / am not going, for I have laid aside my 



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" My good fellow !" said F , as he took our other hand ; 

 " you deserve to be made President of the Entomological 

 Society." 



NOTE. 



That remarkable procedure of the matron ant, whereon the 

 preceding narrative is founded, is a well authenticated fact. 

 The circumstances attending it were partially noted by Gould, 

 the historian of English ants, Linnaeus, and De Geer; and 

 obsevved and related with greater accuracy by Huber. 



