Their nuptials described as an idyllic poem, [254]

What remained in the morning, [255]

CHAPTER III.—THE ANTS: THEIR FLOCKS AND THEIR SLAVES.

The writer's pain at discovering among the ants the existence of slavery, [259]

Considerations which induced him to continue his studies, [260]

He finds that the ants keep their "herds of cattle," [261] And discovers a reason for their apparent encouragement of slavery, [262]

Mixed communities of ants; workers and warriors, [263]

The workers are in reality the masters, though they seem to be slaves, [264]

A campaign described; red against black, [265]

Ant-societies regulated on the principle of division of labour, [266]