LIFE IN AN ANT HILL 
-Anyone out walking — in fields, in 
parks, even on city streets — is likely to 
be stopped sometimes by a crowd of in¬ 
sects scurrying across his path. Ants! 
One step more and dozens of little lives 
would be crushed out. The ants move 
in streams, like people at a country fair, 
or workmen swarming out of a factory. 
How fast they go! They do not stop 
even for a moment. But where are they 
going? What are they doing? Into the 
grasses they scurry, or along the pave¬ 
ment cracks and into the ground, until 
they are lost to sight. 
What fun it would be to follow them 
for a while, to find out how they live! 
And it is not so hard to do this as we 
may think. For some men have spent 
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