26 
THB BUGOLOGIST 
them yourself before this. When they settle again many 
new homes are established. 
Now we must for home. On our way, I’ll tell you 
an interesting ant story. A friend of mine who lived in 
California a number of years told it to me. It is what 
he himself has seen or I should not believe it. But it 
must be true according to his tell. He says : 
“It was quite early in the morning when I had 
started for one of the mining camps up the side of the 
mountain. As I was walking along the foot of the 
mountain in a well-trodden path, (so common among the 
hills,) I noticed a few ants crossing my path. I looked 
farther back in the direction in which they came and 
saw not only a few hundred but thousands. 
Well, I had always heard marvellous stories about 
ants. One man told me he had a pail of syrup in his 
pantry and somehow the ants got at it. He took the 
pail and hung it up by a string fastened to a nail in the 
ceiling. Later in the day he, by accident, saw one ant 
descending the string. About an hour later the string 
was black with ants and a broad band of ants stretched 
across the ceiling. The single ant had in the course of 
only one hour brought up hundreds. 
Now, thinking this some what fabulous I determined 
to find out for myself. 
