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and down its length apparently lost and bewildered. 

 Their sense of touch, in consequence, is very acute, 

 and it is evident that they feel their way more 

 readily than they see it. 



Here in the pasture a few yards from this noise- 

 less but busy street, I have turned over a large 

 stone that was deeply embedded in the soil. The 

 event must have appeared to the bustling city be- 

 neath like a destroying cyclone or an earthquake. 

 Squadrons and workers are hurrying in hot haste 

 and confusion through roadways, under the arches, 

 down the tunnels ; never since they were a munici- 

 pality has such a calamity visited them. Pres- 

 ently, however, as if by some controlling influence, 

 order comes from this turmoil, and the hitherto 

 panic-stricken inhabitants have suddenly bethought 

 them of their helpless babes that are lying there 

 in bunches exposed to the fierce rays of the sun. 

 These must be removed to the galleries below, so 

 all now have gone to work with a will, and the 

 busy scene presented to view is one of marvelous 

 interest. See this feUow tug at a sack which con- 

 tains a pupa three times as large as himself ! Now 

 he holds it fast with his sharp mandibles, and 

 staggers away with it over the uneven surface, as 

 a small but sinewy porter would carry up-stairs a 



