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is observed in the two camps; there is a continual 

 coming and going. One fine day, as the result of 

 some unknown act, — some mysterious casus belli or 

 declaration of war, — two armies place themselves on 

 the march against each other. They advance in 

 serried ranks. All ants do not follow ■ the same 

 tactics ; some throw themselves out in a thicker line, 



Fig. 8. 



while others form in squares. But as soon as action 

 commences tlie individual regains his rights. It is a 

 series of duels, of fierce hand-to-hand struggles. 

 Legs are torn away, heads are cut off by strokes of 

 the jaws, abdomens are disembowelled ; a terrible 

 fury animates the combatants, and nothing will 

 disturb them from the battle. (Fig. 8.) By- 



