Journeys through Bookland : a new and original plan for reading applied to the world's best literature for children (1922)
Sylvester, Charles Herbert · Chicago : Bellows-Reeve · leaf 286
the chips incessantly. Looking further, I was sur-prised to find that the chij)s were covered with suchcombatants, that it was not a duellum, but a helium,a war between two races of ants, the red alwayspitted against the black, and frequently two redones to one black. The legions of these… … BATTLE OF THE ANTS ever trod while the battle was raging; internecinewar; the red republicans on the one hand, and theblack imperialists on the other. On every side theywere engaged in deadly combat, yet without anynoise that I could hear, and human soldiers neverfought so resolutely. I watched a…
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