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KI.\SIII.K;HTS ON NATURE 



pine-needles, arranged in a barrow-shaped hill or 

 mound, some cijjht feet across at tin IUM-, and two 



NO. i. A WOOD ANTS' NEST, EXTERIOR. 



feet high. But that is in reality only the outwork 

 or top storey of the communal habitation. Beneath 



