NATURAL HISTORY. 117 



"But, Uncle Philip, there is one thing I 

 have been thinking of which would make it 

 more like a city still. But I hardly think they 

 can have that." 



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" Wl y in a city, you know, where there are 

 a great many people, there are a great many 

 trades : some do one thing and some do an- 

 other to get money." 



" Yes, that is true ; and I am glad that you 

 mentioned it, because it reminds me of one 

 thing I intended to tell you about these ants. 

 Now, it would not be reasonable, you know, 

 to expect the ants to have many different kinds 

 of business to do, as the people in New- York 

 have ; but still, boys, they are not all alike, 

 and they do have work of different kinds. 

 There are in the city of the white ants a king 

 and a queen, and soldiers, and labourers, or 

 workmen, and all these are different. Here 

 are pictures which will show them all to you. 

 This is the king. 



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King of the Termites. 



