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or grubs of their own young, into a glass box 

 with a thick coat of earth at the bottom of it, 

 and he put honey also in the box, that they 

 might not want food. At first the legionaries 

 paid a little attention to their young ; but they 

 soon stopped ; and they neither tried to make 

 a house, nor took any food, so that in two days 

 half of them died. Mr. Huber then put in 

 one negro ant, and this little creature set to 

 work alone, made a chamber of the earth in 

 the box, gathered the young together, fed the 

 old, and put every thing into complete order. 



" At another time Mr. Huber broke one of 

 the ant-hills of these legionaries, to see how 

 they would act, and in doing it, he, of course, 

 altered their galleries and chambers. The le- 

 gionaries seemed to be lost, and went wander- 

 ing about, without knowing where to go ; but 

 the negro ants appeared to understand very 

 well where they were : they could find such 

 of the galleries as were not broken, and would 

 take up the legionaries in their mouths and 

 carry them into them. If the negro some- 

 times seemed for a short time to be lost, and 

 not to know where it was, it laid down its 

 master, ran round and examined until it knew, 

 and then would come back, and pick up the 



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