. St. Nicholas [serial] . n ant, and dont try to explain mat-ters to a slave. And he hurried on. Was that a slave ? asked Buster. She was carrying an egg, was nt she ? Yes. Then she was a slave. Do all the slaves carry eggs ? No; but all eggs are carried by slaves,when they are carried at all around the city. You have chickens, then ? Chickens ? Gracious goodness, no ! Ugh!Horrid big things with only two legs and twoeyes. Two eyes! cried Buster. Why, howmany eyes would you expect them to have ? Well, that depends, said the policeman ant. Now, some ants have only eighty or ninetyeyes, and some
. St. Nicholas [serial] . n ant, and dont try to explain mat-ters to a slave. And he hurried on. Was that a slave ? asked Buster. She was carrying an egg, was nt she ? Yes. Then she was a slave. Do all the slaves carry eggs ? No; but all eggs are carried by slaves,when they are carried at all around the city. You have chickens, then ? Chickens ? Gracious goodness, no ! Ugh!Horrid big things with only two legs and twoeyes. Two eyes! cried Buster. Why, howmany eyes would you expect them to have ? Well, that depends, said the policeman ant. Now, some ants have only eighty or ninetyeyes, and some have as many as twenty-fourhundred; but— What ? Twenty-four hundred eyes ! criedBuster. How many have you yourself? I myself have twenty-four hundred andthree — twenty-four hundred compound eyesand three simple eyes. That s all. I had nt noticed them, said Buster. Well, get down and look at them, said theant. I m tired and want a rest. Buster clambered down and looked at theants head closely. Sure enough, on each side. HE WAS A VERY FEROCIOUS-LOOKING FELLOW. of his head were hundreds and hundreds of littleeyes, and then there were three big eyes, oneon each side of his head and one in the ant winked about half a hundred of hiseyes at Buster all at once, and said: 73Q BUSTER AND THE ANTS. [June, It s a little inconvenient at times to have somany eyes when a fellow gets sleepy and wantsto rub them. For, dont you see, I have only sixarms. Legs, said Buster. They re all the same, said the ant. Ican rub my eyes with all of them. But then, yousee, 6 goes into 2403 just — wait a minute —just 400 times and a half,— yes, that s right,—and so if I rubbed with all six arms, or legs, atonce — and I could nt possibly unless I lay onmy back — I should have to rub 400 times. And a half, put in Buster. Yes, that s so; and a half. My goodness !what a lot of work ! But why do you rub them at all ? I dont. I merely said if I did. And thenthink of getting cinders into al
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