42 TWO CHAPTERS ON ANTS. 



becomes fairly frantic ; be doubles himself 

 up and rolls about over the ground, trying 

 to reach his tiny tormentors ; and now one 

 of his comrades, attracted by his strange be- 

 havior, stops and looks on, and walks around 

 him, as if to learn what all this tumbling 

 means. Seeming satisfied, he picks him up 

 and carries him toward home. While he is 

 being carried he is quiet. I take him away 

 from his comrade and put him on the ground, 

 when he again resumes his tumbling, until 

 picked up by another and carried into the 

 nest, as if the public highway was 110 place 

 for such contortions. 



I put several of the red warriors, with this 

 tiny species hanging to them, in alcohol ; 

 the little things do not relax their hold, but 

 die holding on to the big marauders. 



Sometimes an ant will continue work 

 with one of the little things hanging to his 

 antenna3,but more often they stop work and 

 start for home when one is fastened where 

 it cannot be reached : they are not carried 

 home except when they roll about. 



The invaders work for several hours, 

 greatly enlarging the openings, and at night 

 return home with no spoils. On the fol- 

 lowing day a few resume work, and keep 

 steadily at it all day, and enlarge several 



