The New Queen. 149 
have I ever heard that they take sides and 
cheer their own candidate. 
The combatants seize each other with 
their jaws, and clasp each other with their 
feet, trying in every way to thrust the fatal 
. 2 _ poisoned dag- gee 
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and Men bers = “anto the. Set 
parts between the rings of the abdomen, or 
where the neck joins the thorax, or the 
thorax the abdomen,—all these places being 
soft and allowing a dagger that is thrust 
into them to reach the inner vital parts. 
At length the fatal thrust is given: one 
of the queens is victor; the other lies dead. 
upon the field of battle. The workers carry 
out the dead body, but whether they mourn 
I cannot say. Certainly they do not have 
a grand funeral. I suppose it would not 
be exactly polite to the victorious queen 
to show too much sorrow for the van- 
quished one. 
