TWO DEADLY FOES OF THE ANTS 
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After a short rest, these able-bodied leaves began crawling along 
the ground toward the trunk of the tree from which they came, and the 
amazed sailors started up in terror. They took to their heels at once 
and lost no time in getting back to the boat. 
This strange incident has been explained by later travelers who 
were not too much frightened tO( stop and examine the matter. It was 
discovered that these queer leaves are really insects that live upon the 
trees, and are the same color as the foliage. They have thin, flat 
bodies, shaped like the leaves, and when anything disturbs them, like 
a breeze, they fold their legs away under their bodies, and then the 
leaf-like shape, stem and all, is complete. 
Not only are they bright green in summer, like the foliage of the 
trees at that time, but they actually change when the leaves do to the 
dull brown produced by frost. Another peculiarity of these leaf- 
insects is that, although they have a generous supply of wings, they 
seldom use them, but when they have been shaken to the ground, after 
lying there a few minutes as if they were really leaves, they crawl to¬ 
ward the tree and up the trunk without seeming to know that they 
could get back to their quarters in a much quicker and easier way. 
—Selected. 
TWO DEADLY FOES OF THE ANTS 
W E read in Gen. 1:25, “And God made the beast of the earth 
after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and everything that 
creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was ^ood.” 
It is true also that, having created every animal, bird, fish, and insect, 
he made provision for food to sustain life; which shows the infinite 
wisdom of God and his care for all his creatures. 
Looked at from one viewpoint, it is hard to understand why the 
little grub called the ant-eater was created; but when we remember 
that if is God’s handiwork, then We know it M for some good purpose 
and fills its place in the creation. Ant-eaters are found in different 
parts of the world, but the little fellow I have in mind is a native of 
Australia. The color of his body is a light cream, while his head is 
brown. He measures three-quarters of an inch in length and one- 
sixteenth of an inch in diameter and his legs are hardly visible to the 
naked eye. Not a very formidable foe, you will say,, and yet when in 
