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liunt. Tlic l">ig red Warrior^ have won ; the littk- 

 yellow Turfites have been repul^^ed and defeated 

 with great slauj^hter. The victors are at present 

 engaged in carrying captured cocoons to their own 

 nests ; tliere the pup;e will hatch out shortly into 

 willing slaves, and, nevei- having known any other 

 condition, will take it for granted that the natural 

 post for small yellow ants is to clean and forage 

 and catch food for big led ones. 



Our own Warrior Ants aie slave-holders which 



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still retain some power of working and acting for 

 themselves ; hut there are other species in which 

 the " peculiar institution " has produced its usual 

 degrading resuli by rendering the slave-owner in- 

 capable and degenerate, a mere lighting do-nothing. 

 Among the Amazon ants, which are very conlirmed 

 slave-makers, Sir John Lubbock found that a great 

 lady, left alone without slaves, in the presence of 

 food, did not even know how to feed herself ; she 

 was positively starving to death in the midst of 



