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boards, with breaks here and there, where it will 

 have to travel out of its course, with a strong 

 breeze blowing "dead ahead," and an occasional 

 leaf brushing its pathway ! Notwithstanding these 

 obstacles it performs the journey in two minutes 

 and a quarter. This is at the rate of twenty-one 

 thousand six hundred feet per day ! A person to 

 accomplish such a distance, in proportion to the 

 size, would travel faster than a railway train. 

 Putting a drop of syrup midway between stations, 

 the most of the little colonists passed on without 

 noticing it. A few halted an instant, as if sur- 

 prised to find this strange substance in their way, 

 and then continued their journey to the land of 

 more delectable sweets. Only one out of the 

 many on the thoroughfare, stopped to drink. This 

 one began immediately to lap it up with its maxil- 

 lary and labial palpi, as a starved cat would milk, 

 and did not leave the bountiful repast untU its 

 abdomen had become thoroughly stretched, when 

 it turned back to the cherry-stump, having forgot- 

 ten all about the objective hornbeam. 



It was droll to see individuals, as they met on 

 the road, salute each other with their antennse. 

 This interchanging of civilities appeared to occur 

 only when they came upon each other in direct 



