Once in a while an ant that has been 
doing indoor work stops a dairy maid 
returning full of honey. With its feelers 
the indoor worker tells the dairy maid 
that it is hungry. Out of the dairy 
maid’s public stomach comes a delicious 
drop of honey, which is lapped up by the 
other. Then both ants hurry on. 
Down the winding halls are some rooms 
into which the dairy maids go with their 
loads of honeydew. When they come out 
they are no longer swollen. What has 
happened to the honeydew? 
A peek into one of those shows some¬ 
thing strange. Hanging from the ceiling 
are what seem to be bags as large and 
round as grapes. The dairy maids, 
climbing the walls, are pouring into these 
bags their loads of sweets. 
But now a closer look shows that these 
bags are not bags at all. They are ants! 
Their public stomachs are big and round 
with honeydew. They are ant bankers. 
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