The Bookshelf for boys and girls Book of Wonders and Curious Things (1912)
University Society, New York · New York: University Society · leaf 130
seemed tohave its root was really the opening of the ant-nest. The tiny creatures had by some instinctlearned that the topmost branches of the cotton-wood had put out their first small leaves. Theyhad climbed the immense distance and had cut offand brought down their leaves—to feed theiryoung ones,… … ANTS CUTTING OFF LEAVES OF THE COTTONWOOD. vaded by a curious, tremulous motion. ThenI saw that the individual leaves were not sta-tionary. Picking up a twig from the ground, Itouched one of the leaves and found to myamazement that there was a brown ant under itabout as long as my little…
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