LETTER III.

MY ANT FAMILY.

I must write you a letter about a
family of ants which I had under my
charge, a little while ago. A family
of ants, please to take notice, my little
friend, not aunts. Some of my aunts
are worth seeing and worth talking
about, doubtless; but it is not of them
that I wish to speak at present.

I have some facts to relate concern-