. The insect book [microform] : a popular account of the bees, wasps, ants, grasshoppers, flies and other North American insects exclusive of the butterflies, moths and beetles, with full life histories, tables and bibliographies. Insectes; Insects. :ii I I >l. The Ants bigger th;.n it ought to be; he hunts out the awkwardest place to tJke hold of it; he lifts it bodilv up into the ;iir hy main force and starts: not toward home, but in the opposite direction; not calmly and %sisely, but with a frantic haste which is wasteful ot his strength; he fetches up against a pebble, and instead ot go
. The insect book [microform] : a popular account of the bees, wasps, ants, grasshoppers, flies and other North American insects exclusive of the butterflies, moths and beetles, with full life histories, tables and bibliographies. Insectes; Insects. :ii I I >l. The Ants bigger th;.n it ought to be; he hunts out the awkwardest place to tJke hold of it; he lifts it bodilv up into the ;iir hy main force and starts: not toward home, but in the opposite direction; not calmly and %sisely, but with a frantic haste which is wasteful ot his strength; he fetches up against a pebble, and instead ot going around it, he chmbs over it backwards dragging his booty after him. tumbles down on the other side, jumps up in a passion kicks the dust off his clothes, moistens his hands, grabs his prop- erty viciously, yanks it this wav, then that, shoves it ahead of him a moment, turns tail and lugs it after him a moment gets madder, then presently hoists it into the air and goes tearing away in an entirely new direction; comes to a weed; it never occurs to him to go around it, he must climb it; and he does climb it. dragging his worthless property to the top-which is as bright ,â . thing to Jo as it would be for me to carry a sack of flour Irom Heidelburg to Paris by way of Strasburg steeple- when he gets up there he linds that is not the place; takes a cur- sory glance at the scenery and either climbs down a^rain or tumbles down, and starts off once more -as usual in a n"ew di- rection. At the end of haif an hour he fetches up within six inches of the place he started from and lays his burden down * * * '⢠Alter continuing this charmingly aimless work for some time md meeting another int and fighting him about nothing, "each starts off in a dilferent direction to see if he cant find an old nail or some- thing else that is heavy enough to afford entertainment and at the same time valueless enough to make an ant want to own ; V\ ismann has just published some impo
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