AN ANT-HILL BY DAY 



The red wood-ants cover their dwelling with a thatch of leaves and straw or pine-needles, to keep their 

 an thefthe roof is'crowded with 



ithin the nest and "shut up 



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house hvrlo n or when it begins to ram the ants retire 



house by closing all the entrances with bits of stick and leaves. 



