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I did so I found a full-grown mouse and a wasp 

 which was very much alive. 



More attention has probably been paid to ants 

 and their ways than to any other insects, mainly on 



SNAILS. 



account of their highly developed intelligence and 

 the communistic principles upon which they live. 

 I have had a number under observation, but must 

 say that I have been disappointed in not discover- 

 ing greater displays of intelligence in them. I 

 placed a good portion of a colony in a large glass 



