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feed, cut it when ripe, and store it in their subterranean 
granaries. Arrant slaveholders are others, who make sys- 
tematic raids upon neighboring species, carry off their yet 
unhatched cocoons, and rear them in their own nests to be 
their servants. Somewhat recent discoveries show that there 
are ants which bury their dead. Two pairs of bearers are 
chosen to carry the corpse, one pair relieving the other when 
tired, while the main body, often several hundred in number, 
follow behind. So much could be said about ants, so closely 
do their performances resemble the customs of human civili- 
zation, that the subject could never grow uninteresting, but 
we must, for the present, forbear. All these various per- 
formances could not be possible were there not some way by 
which communication, or interchange of ideas, could be 
carried on among the individual members of the same com- 
munity. Sometimes one species of ant is capable of carrying 
on a conversation, so to speak, with another. Bees, wasps 
and ants are the best linguists of the insect race, their lan- 
guage being chiefly conducted by means of their antennz. 
Who has not often observed two dogs, members of the 
same household, holding sweet converse with each other? 
Pug and Gyp were two animals that belonged to the fam- 
ily where I spent a summer vacation. They thought much 
of each other when romping together in the yard, or in 
foraging the neighboring woods and fields for rabbits and 
ground-hogs. Never would they start out on an expedition 
for game without having previously laid their plans. It was 
interesting and amusing to watch them. They would bring 
their heads into close contiguity, remaining in this position 
for two or three minutes, when, by mutual consent, they 
would separate, look each other in the eyes, and then start 
off in different directions for the scene of their projected 
enterprise. Times out of number I have observed such 
behavior and have always discovered that they meant 
something of the kind. There were no audible utterances, 
no visible gestures, yet there was an interchange of ideas. 
