He next tried insect food, and put several ants into the glass to them, but they then betrayed as much cowardice as they had before done of barbarity; for the instant the Mantes saw the ants, they attempted to escape in every direction.

Who can observe the careful ant, And not provide for future want? 40 My dog (the trustiest of his kind)

It took him some time to find it in the grass, and after he had found it, he stopped for some time longer, to watch some ants which were passing in and out, at the entrance to their nest, each one bringing up a grain of sand in his forceps.

The discussion grew dangerously heated on the second afternoon, and Holroyd saved the situation by going ashore in a boat to catch ants and see.

Sir Gyles Goosecap has always a deathes head (as it were) in his mouth, for his onely one reason for everything is, because we are all mortall; and therefore he is generally cald the mortall Knight; then hath he another pretty phrase too, and that is, he will "tickle the vanity ant" still in everything; and this is your Summa totalis of both their virtues.

To your house in the old willow-tree, Where your children so dear have invited the ant And a few cozy neighbors to tea.

In his Life, written by himself, he speaks with the greatest sincerity and tenderness of his grief at having accidentally crushed an ant; and yet he ordered melted lead to be poured down the throats of certain persons who drank wine contrary to his commands.

The man who liked ants.

These ant- wrens hover in front of and over the columns of foraging ants, feeding not only on the other insects aroused by the ants, but on the ants themselves.

And yet others resemble ants which are often rejected by birds, reptiles and other insects.

I have heard it said that the Germans eat ants.

There was a small canal of water outside to prevent ants from entering the room.

All are officers who rank high in the guild of Sky Sweepers, being constantly in the air seizing their insect food on the wing; thus they kill all sorts of flies, flying ants, small winged beetles, midges, and mosquitoes.

According to Father Camel ("Philisoph. Trans. London," vol. xxvi, p. 246), hantu means black ants the size of a wasp; amtig, smaller black; and hantic, red ants.

Well, Buddy and Brighteyes went on and on, and up and up, and pretty soon they met an ant.

If you have ever noticed an ant running over the floor you will have an idea how the Wye runs through this beautiful country.

"Those are a pair of Redstarts," she said, "and they are picking up ants.

Lulu surreptitiously pinched off an ant that was running at large upon the cloth and thereafter kept her eyes steadfastly on the sugar-bowl to see if it could be from that.

The editor of the "Fish Horn" went on a pleasure trip, to plant a rich ant who had died and left him some cash.

" "Poisonedby the ants?"

The wretched hovels at St. Annie's, on the Hampton estate, that had seemed to me the ne plus ultra of misery, were really palaces to some of the dirty, desolate, dilapidated dog kennels which we passed to-day, and out of which the negroes poured like black ants at our approach, and stood to gaze at us as we drove by.

Even ants, as P. Huber has clearly shown, recognised their fellow-ants belonging to the same community after a separation of four months.

And don’t you remember those big bull-dog ants We caught in our blankets at night?

"A part of it runs: 'Said the ant to the elephant, "Who are ye shoving?

In the valleys the berries were gone; grass and roots alone were no longer nourishing enough for their bodies; they could no longer waste time in seeking ants and grubs; the fish were in deep water.