"Here is a soldier: he has a large head, armed with two hooks, shaped like a crooked awl, and very sharp.
Soldier of the Termites.
"For every one of these soldiers there are about one hundred labourers. The soldiers do the fighting; and though they are perfectly blind, they fight well, and are very brave. The following is a picture, too, of the soldiers' awls, seen through the microscope, to show you how sharp they are.
"And here is a picture of the labourer; the largest part of the city is made up of the labourers,—which shows us, I think, boys, that there is more need of working than there is of fighting.
