Now I will tell you how ants move from one house to another. One day I saw by my garden path a line of ants moving all one way. They were black ants.
They went two by two, or one and two, close to each other. Every one had in its jaws a white bundle. I found that they all came from an ant-hill. They came up out of the gate very fast, one by one, each with its bundle.
About two or three inches from this line of ants I saw another line. This line went to the hill, not from it. They went in good order.
They had no bundles when they went into the hill; when they came out, each had a bundle, and joined the other line of ants.
On the March.
I went along with the stream of ants that had the white bundles. I found that they went to a new hill, about thirty feet from the old hill.
There they laid down their bundles, and went back to the old hill to bring more. The bundles lay heaped in a ring all about the gate of the new city.
Out of this gate ran other ants in haste. They caught up the bundles, one by one, and carried them in. In about half an hour they were nearly all taken in, and the ants brought no more. The moving was over.
