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Through this opening she shpped and found 

 herself in one of the royal rooms, and there before 

 her in a sad plight lay the very queea for whom 

 she was searching. In sad plight indeed, for a 

 lump of earth had fallen on her, pinning her down 

 so that she could not move. 



Nipper Rescuing the Queen. 



Close by lay one of the royal guards crushed by 

 the fallen roof. Nipper saw in a moment that the 

 guard was quite dead. Then she set to work to 

 release the queen. 



This was hard work for the little ant, tired as 

 she already was. But she went at the task bravely, 

 and soon had the joy of finding that the queen 

 was free. But her labors were not yet ended. 

 The queen was not able to walk, and so Nipper 

 took her upon her back. Staggering under the 

 weight, she made her way past the heaps of earth 

 and back to the mouth of the nest. 



