to keep going. Before this the black 
ants had done rather well, since everyone 
was working. But now half of the colony 
are idle and the other half have to feed 
and tend both themselves and their 
masters. So the red ants have to go out 
from time to time and attack other hills 
to bring home more slaves. 
We might expect that the slaves would 
fight against their masters. They have 
the strength to do this if they would. 
But ants do not want freedom as people 
do. They do not understand the reason 
for their troubles. They go right on 
working. 
WINTER 
Luckily, this is only what might have 
happened to our ant hill. And so, while 
the attack of the red ants was a terrible 
thing, the colony is not so badly off as 
it might have been. 
There are only a pitiful few of the 
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