THE ANIMAL KINGDOM. 



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Ant-battles have had then- historian, we might ahnost 

 say their bard, for the younger Huber has described them 



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111. Ant about to milk Aphides. 



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Avith as true poetry as Ave find in the tales of Homer or 

 the strophes of the Thebaid. 



We can see this in the description of one of these battles 

 taken verbatim from the Genevese savant. It took place 

 between two ant-colonies situated a hundred paces from 



