154 Life and Immortality. 
Not daring to attack the foe, and being unwilling that any 
of their number should be led into slavery, or suffer aught 
at the hands of others, they immediately set to work to 
destroy all whom it was impossible to protect. 
Detailed as most of the neuters seemed to be in looking 
after the wants of the immature, there were a few observed | 
running hither and thither and seizing in their jaws the newly- 
developed, not to bear them out of the reach of danger, 
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BATTLE BETWEEN ANTS. 
Young Destroyed by Nurses. 
as was at first supposed, but to kill them so as to prevent 
them from falling a living prey into the hands of the enemy. 
Knowing the sympathy and affection which the nurses are 
ever wont to cherish towards the objects of their care, this 
act of cruelty struck me as something very astonishing and 
peculiar. 
Prompted by curicsity to know the nature of the wounds 
thus inflicted, I placed upon the palm of my hand one of the 
wounded ants, and made, by means of a microscope, a 
