These lessons about the ant contain only a few of the many things that can be said of this insect. I hope you will like the ants well enough to get other books about them, and study and watch the ants for yourselves.
FOOTNOTES:
LESSON XI.
MR. WORM AND HIS FAMILY.
One day I saw a boy making a hole in the ground, and he dug out a worm.
I said to the boy, “What can you tell me about worms?”
The boy said, “Worms are long, soft things, alike at both ends. If you cut one in two, each end goes off, and makes a whole new worm. They have no heads and no feet and no feelings, and are no good but for fish-bait.”
The boy thought he knew all about worms. But really he knew very little about them. All that he had told me was wrong.
Worms belong to the great class of ringed, or jointed, animals. These creatures have bodies made in rings or joints.