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midable insects, killed a fowl and gave it to the Ants. At first, 
they did not seem to pay much attention to it, but he soon found 
that they were in reality making their preparations. Large 
parties of the insects were detached for the purpose of preparing 
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a road, and worked with the assiduity which seems to be a 
characteristic of these energetic insects. Numbers of them were 
employed in smoothing the road to the nest by removing every 
obstacle out of the way, until by degrees a tolerably level road 
