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THE BUGOIyOGIST 
They are the smallest in the nest. Strange, that the 
smallest should do all the work but they do and that 
without grumbling, as you can see from the way they 
work. 
Oh, but who comes here? A big black spider is 
going to attack this weak little worker. There ! he is 
trying to take the fly that the ant has caught. Well, 
the little ant hangs on but the spider fairly drags him 
away. But, never mind, Mr. Spider, you’ll be driven 
away before you know it. At last.—After he has 
dragged the little thing for more than a rod, the ant lets 
go and hastens back to his home. 
He enters the house. Something happens within, 
for a whole regiment of them conies out and starts in 
the direction the spider has run. These ants, however, 
are larger and stronger. It must be that their business 
is to watch and protect the house. So it is. They are 
soldiers and they are now in pursuit of the spider. 
The spider has hidden behind a little tuft of grass, 
where he thinks himself quite safe. But the soldiers 
move so quietly that he does not hear them, until they 
have almost surrounded him. Now he is frightened and 
trys to escape. In his haste he loses his prey, which the 
ants take. As he passes over the army, for he is much 
larger than the ants, the gritty, little fellows snap and 
jump at him but he makes good his escape. 
