IN CAMP. 



other obstruction met with and then had 

 to b'e hauled away by sheer force ; also 

 two ants meeting would almost invari- 

 ably brush the tufts against each other 

 when they would cling together like wax, 

 the deuce of a tug-of-war being the 

 result. 



During the half hour I watched these 

 serious minded little chaps at their 

 laborious task (Why is it there appear to 

 be no slackers or unemployed amongst the 

 worker ants ? Have they reached a higher 

 civilization than our own ? ) I calculated 

 roughly that I had seen the entire crop 

 of seed of several of the giant grass 

 heads pass before my eyes in the tightly 

 closed grip of these industrious little 

 creatures. A goodly store they must lay 

 up at this rate, but then they have four 

 months of a severe winter to pass 

 through in these northern parts of India. 



Some days later I happened to observe 

 a couple of double rows of this same 

 ant streaming across an open space near 

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