48 My ANT FAMILY.

 

at work on their new house. They did
not all work, to be sure. There is &
class in every ant family, which seldom
or never do any work, unless there is a
war between two rival families, and
then they fight very savagely. They
are called soldiers. It 1s only the work-
ors that are engaged in common, every-
day business. The soldiers are larger
than the workers, and more clumsily
puilt. Their head, too, is larger in
proportion to the rest of their bodies,
than is the case with the workers.
You can generally tell a soldier, from
those who do the work, if you take