MY ANT FAMILY. ‘61

 

been doing there, by themselves. They
had -been guarding the queen. I had
not noticed her, until the soldiers, one
by one, began to move toward the
mouth of the bottle. They had actu-
ally covered her with their own bodies,
to shield her from harm. The queen
is much larger than the soldiers—more
than three times as large, I should
think. You can’t imagine what de-
votion all the ants showed to their
queen. When she was ready to move,
they would not let her walk, but in-
sisted on carrying her to the new house.
After the ants had got comfortably set-