field must be cleaned. The dead must 
be carried to the cemetery. Tunnels, 
which have been broken in places, must 
be rebuilt. 
SLAVERY 
In this case the red ants just attacked 
and took the slaves they wanted. But 
sometimes worker ants become the slaves 
of red ants in another way. And the 
second way is much worse for the colony. 
This is how things might have hap¬ 
pened. One day, while all the worker 
ants are busy at their tasks, a strange 
Queen ant slips unnoticed into the ant 
hill. Along the halls she goes until she 
comes to the rightful Queen’s chambers. 
She enters, but for some reason the Queen 
does not give the danger signal. Perhaps 
this strange Queen has already got the 
smell of the ant hill on her. At any rate, 
the two Queens seem to be getting along 
in a friendly way. In a little while the 
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