ruggling, carried it into my

    under a tumbler on my o see the issue.

    o t-mentioned red ant, I sa,

    t the near fore leg of his enemy,

    orn

    aals o the black

    e ly too to

    pierce; and th

    ferocity suce.  truggled half an hour

    longer under tumbler, and whe black soldier

    ill

    living ly

    trop ill apparently as firmly fastened as

    ever, and ruggles, being

    feelers and  of a leg, and I kno how many

    oto divest  lengter half

    an  off

    over t crippled state.  her he finally

    survived t combat, and spent the remainder of his days in some

    el des Invalides, I do not kno I t t ry

    be er.  I never learned wy was

    victorious, nor t I felt for t of

    t day as if I ed and harrowed by

    nessing truggle, ty and carnage, of a tle

    before my door.

    Kirby and Spence tell us t ttles of ants have long been

    celebrated and te of t huber

    is to nessed them.

    quot;AEneas Sylvius,quot; say t;after giving a very circumstantial

    account of one contested  obstinacy by a great and small

    species on trunk of a pear tree,quot; adds t quot;tion was

    fougificate of Eugenius the presence of

    Nicoriensis, an eminent lahe whole,

    ory of ttle est fidelity.quot;  A similar

    engagement bet and small ants is recorded by Olaus Magnus,

    in o have buried

    t left t

    enemies a prey to t o the

    ex